Government reiterates its commitment to fight against corruption and improve the audit status of government departments. The Auditor-General’s (AG) report has been presented to the Executive Authority and both parties have expressed a commitment to take immediate action to remedy the current situation.
Government is unswerving in promoting a clean administration, and it is against this backdrop that stricter control measures are being put in place to comply with the Public Finance Management Act. The national and provincial governments are committed to accelerating the good governance drive in the public sector by implementing key control measures that will ensure clean administration.
Acting CEO Phumla Williams said, “Government is implementing stringent measures aimed at addressing the shortfalls highlighted by the Auditor-General. For example, there are strategies that are in place and aimed at meeting the deadline of Operation Clean Audit 2014, which was pledged by all municipalities in the country in 2009.”
However, the Sunday World reported that the Auditor-General, Terence Nombembe, allegedly said that people who are in Government are beyond the ability to be trained and most government officials lack appropriate competencies.
Williams said, “the fact that the AG made a finding of almost 74% of unqualified financial audit does not suggest that this is tantamount to being done by un-trainable public servants.” Government reiterates that there are consequences for those public servants who fail to do the work that is required to improve public administration.
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