The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has successfully brought its Zonal Public Sittings, considering the 2020 Auditor General’s Report on Pre-Universities in the Northern, North East, Upper East, Upper West and the Savana Regions as well as Reports of the Auditor-General on Management and Utilisations of District Assemblies’ Common Fund and other Statutory Funds for the year ended 31st December, 2020 to an end.
The six-day sitting considered infractions cited by the Auditor General in its 2020 Reports. Some of them are; cash irregularities, unsupported payments, failure to commit expenditure on the GIFMIS Platform, over utilisation of the DACF on recurrent expenditures.
Some Pre-Universities and Technical Universities were also cited in the Auditor -General’s Reports for some financial irregularities related to outstanding loans, and staff debtors, Cash Irregularities, misapplication of funds, non-retirement of imprest, unapproved expenditures and non-payment of Internally Generated Funds into the Consolidated Fund and payroll irregularities.
These institutions were referred to the Attorney General’s Department for prosecution while others refunded moneys misappropriated before meeting with the Public Accounts Committee.
The Committee is on its way to Sunyani for the next Public Hearing on Monday 17th April, 2023.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Kwabena Nyarko Abronoma
