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PSS SETTLE E2 800 FINES AT FIRST PAC SITTING

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LOBAMBA – The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) got off to a cracking start yesterday as two Principal Secretaries (PSs) settled fines totalling to E2 800.


The PSs, Emmanuel Dlamini in the Ministry of Tourism and Environmental Affairs and Clifford Mamba in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, were the first to feel the brunt of the PAC during its first sitting in the House of Assembly.
They were paying for sins of the past, which were detailed in the PAC’s Recommendations on Auditor General’s Report on Government Accounts.


For instance, Dlamini had to prove to the MP Thuli Dladla-headed committee that a payment of E2 000 had been made.
Half of this amount was for an anomaly which was explained in the Auditor General’s (AG) Report of 2012/13. The AG’s office recorded that a delivery note was signed before the actual delivery of goods worth E23 126.76. A cheque was issued to this effect and was kept in the senior accountant’s office. The PAC stated that government did not deal with prepayments, and the accountant flouted all financial and accounting procedures.


The accountant had, therefore, committed an offence and compromised the integrity of the profession.
It was recommended that the PS (also referred to as controlling officer) must fine the accountant E1 000 for this offence, which had opened the door to possible corruption.


The other matter for which another E1 000 fine was paid was based on the AG’s discovery that the Forestry Department purchased goods worth E252 852 without a requisition.

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