AUDIT REPORT 2022 IS OUT. BIG QUESTIONS FOR GOVERNMENT
Audit Service: A Double Edged Sword in the Accountability Battle By Babah Kanu +232-76-927-562 babbiuskay@gmail.com The Audit Service Sierra Leone is the supreme audit institution mandated by law to audit all public entities that receive monies on behalf of the people of Sierra Leone. The country since independence has been entangled by corruption which has been the bane that wane the economic, social and political facet, with little or no progress made year in, year out. This state of affairs has existed to an extent that Sierra Leone was noted for an infamous voucher gate in the 1980s, which almost crippled the country’s economy. To extricate the country from this economic morass, the democratic constitution of 1991 engendered accountability in public institutions with the establishment of accountability institutions including the Audit Service Sierra Leone. Over the years, this accountability institution has been nurturing the hen that has laid the golden eggs by providing informat