Eujene Barikana, the Director General in the office of the Prime Minister has urged Ministries and Public institutions in the country that mismanaged public funds to borrow funds management lessons from institutions that were considered clean in the Auditor General’s report.
Barikana offered the advise during a meeting of directors of finance and administration (DAFs) from different ministries and public agencies.
The meeting was aimed at assessing mistakes made in the management of public funds in the institutions, and coming up with solutions to address those irregularities.
“If there are ministries with clean audit reports, why can’t other institutions have the same?”
He added, “We summoned you to a meeting, so that those institutions which did well can teach those institutions (on good management of funds practices).
We are talking about Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Natural Resources. We want to see at least in the next audit report some progress”.
The 2010-2011 Auditor General’s report revealed that Frw 627 Million was embezzled, while about Frw 590 Billion have no accompanying documents showing how they were spent and over Frw11Billion was taken out of government coffers contrary to the law.
Lack of efficient handover process among staff, and poor archiving have been cited as major causes of mismanagement of funds.
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