" /> Story by: Jette Collins Liberia’s newly appointed Auditor General of the General Auditing Commission Robert Kilby says his predecessor John Morlu breached the professional principles of auditing and also did not do well. Mr. Kilby said that all audits conducted by the General Auditing Commission during the tenure of Mr. Morlu did not meet international [...] " />
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Wednesday June 19th 2013

Liberia’s New AG Blasts John Morlu

Story by: Jette Collins

Liberia’s newly appointed Auditor General of the General Auditing Commission Robert Kilby says his predecessor John Morlu breached the professional principles of auditing and also did not do well. Mr. Kilby said that all audits conducted by the General Auditing Commission during the tenure of Mr. Morlu did not meet international auditing standards.

Mr. Kilbly who is also one of the American audit exam writers, hit Morlu hard at the Liberian Senate during confirmation hearings last weekend.

He said some of the auditing words by his predecessor were wrongly applied.

“Auditing is an unique profession, which is confidence and trust at the same time tries to protect its findings from the public, because audit reports can be used as evidence for possible prosecution and auditors should be very careful how to give information out, because other criminals may follow that trend to defraud others or government, but in the case of GAC audits, it get to the public before even reaching you officially (senate) and worse of it, draft audit reports surfaced in the public, while the final [was] one pending This is totally unacceptable.”

According to him, former AG John Morlu did not introduce any standard of audit.

“There is no standard set by past administrations to conduct audit; instead, the GAC was only with transactional audit. You must have standard before proceeding with audit”, he noted.

He said Liberia must put in place an audit standard. He warned that if this is not done, investors could use this means to harm the country.

“ We must select one so investors can go by, because if we fail to do such, investors will bring their standard that will help amass profits at the disadvantage of the country”, he warned.

The former AG John Morlue has not responded to the New AG’s assertion.

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