CIVIL SERVANT OWING GOVT E91 WILL PAY

MBABANE – Government wants a former civil servant who benefitted from a Car Loan Scheme to settle her outstanding debt of E91.

Sibongile Myeni’s name features in the debtors to Swaziland Government Car Loan Scheme for this amount of money, which she owes the taxpayer.
If finally paid, government will remit the E91 to the Consolidated Fund.

An accountant at the Treasury Department said: “No matter how small the money may appear in the eyes of peopleA, it is needed. Do you know that I can be charged with fraud if I were to be given the E91 and not remit it to the Consolidated Fund?”

Also featuring in the debtors roll is Meshack Mkhonta, who owes the taxpayer a sum of E700. 
The ministries or departments which Myeni and Mkhonta worked for could not be immediately established.
Emmanuel Ndlangamandla, the Executive Director of the Coordinating Assembly of Non-Governmental Organisations (CANGO) said: “It is still money. It’s valuable for auditing purposes even though I don’t think government can take this person to court for failing to settle this debt.”

The two former civil servants have been listed in the books of debtors which also featured ex-government employees who owed the taxpayer  a lump sum of money in the region of E100 000-E131 000.
Notably, Dabulumjiva Nhlabatsi, the former Minister of Education, has settled his debt in full.

Nhlabatsi’s family was so committed to settling the debt as they would rather go to the Treasury Department to, at least, reduce it by E500.

Meanwhile, government now wants to forfeit E270 000 owed by eight prominent figures, including former cabinet ministers in the same car loan scheme.
This is due to the fact that other debts have been outstanding for two decades.

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