Tricks government officials use to swindle money, Auditor General
Auditor General in advice to President Ruto reveals tricks civil servants use to swindle the government
Auditor General in advice to President Ruto reveals tricks civil servants use to swindle the government.
On January 17, Auditor General Nancy Gathungu denounced a pattern whereby government employees underspend budgeted allotments to their departments in order to embezzle the money.
Gathungu mentioned that several state departments did not meet the criterion of using the funds within the statutory twelve months during a meeting with President William Ruto and other independent authorities.
In turn, she continued, the unused money becomes a way for misallocation and other anomalies to waste public money.
“But your excellency, we have created a thirteenth month and in that thirteenth month there is a lot of wastage of resources,”
“Unfortunately in July funds that they should not be receiving in July and that creates the loopholes your excellency for wastage, reallocation, misallocation, and irregularities,” Gathungu stated.
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The Auditor General asked the President to institute changes in the laws that govern public finance management to avoid more wastage in his tenure.
According to her, the legislature had a role to play in streamlining the regulations by passing supporting legislation in liaison with the National Treasury.
“The CS National Treasury needs to address this and your excellency this can be done as a directive or as an amendment to the public finance management Act including instituting a crew accounting so your PSs don’t struggle as other PSs have struggled before to absorb funds at the last quarter of the financial year,” she stated.
President Ruto acknowledged the role of the auditor general and, other independent offices in ensuring that the government has checks and balances.
He encouraged the Legislature to give the necessary assistance in order to strengthen the systems that regulate budget allocation and spending.
“We are cognizant of this robust system of checks and balances, which lock us into a purposive dynamic that permits us to do only right and proper acts and restrains us from pursuing improper and illegitimate objectives and courses of action,” Ruto stated.
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