Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine, has defended the practice of paying District Assemblies Common Fund DACF monies into the personal accounts of Members of Parliament.
This justification was made in an affidavit filed at the Supreme Court on June 19, 2026, opposing an action brought by Ghanaian citizen Dr Yaw Twerefour. Dr Twerefour is challenging the constitutionality of this practice, arguing that DACF is exclusively for District Assemblies and that payments into personal accounts lack accountability and traceability. He has also filed for an interlocutory injunction to stop the Administrator of the DACF and the Minister for Finance from continuing these payments.
The Attorney General's office, through Assistant State Attorney John Enchill, is seeking to dismiss the injunction application, stating that public interest opposes stopping these payments. Dr Twerefour's substantive action seeks eleven reliefs, including declarations that allocating DACF to MPs is unconstitutional, that paying these funds into personal accounts is unconstitutional, and orders for a comprehensive audit and recovery of unlawfully disbursed funds.
This summary was AI-generated from a story originally published by GhanaWeb.
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