TAXPAYERS’ MONEY SAVED BY CORRECTIONAL

MATSAPHA – Taxpayers’ money has been saved by His Majesty Correctional Service (HMCS).

Unlike other governmental institutions which do not engage in cost saving measures, HMCS embarked on certain projects focused on cost saving. These cost-saving projects (CSP) seek not only to save the States funds but to in fact generate revenue back into the State.

During the three quarters of 2018/19 financial year, HMCS, under its cost savings projects saved government E6 838 890.90. This money was saved under various departments that produce a variety of goods and services that cater for about 3 500 inmates.
The entity also has about 3 000 officers who are said to benefit only through the sewing of their uniforms. The Commissioner General of HMCS Isaiah Mzuthini Ntshangase said some of the services rendered by his institution were also available to the public.

In this financial year, 2019/20, HMCS was allocated E604 million.
On the other hand, another security agency – the Umbutfo Eswatini Defence Force (UEDF) – which has about 3 500 personnel, has two cost-saving-projects. The UEDF was allocated E1.2 billion in this financial year.
When comparing the two security agencies, the UEDF has the highest allocation with minimal means to sustain them; such that it has to buy food used to feed its personnel.
Meanwhile, HMCS, from the statistics shared by it, produces food that could feed the army and due to scarcity of monetary support, it is at times coerced to topup its food.

The difference in the budget allocation for the two institutions is E596 million; with UEDF getting a better share.
A breakdown of how HMCS saves every penny follows hereunder:
His Majesty’s Correctional Services (HMCS) reported that under its livestock section, it had internally produced 48 041 broilers out of a requirement of 51 066. From this production, the expenditure incurred when producing the quantity of this consignment amounted to approximately to E2 402 050 (E50/bird).

If the chickens were sourced externally, it would have cost the department approximately E4 083 485 (E85/bird). The department therefore accumulated savings to the value of E1 681 435 and self-sufficiency was of 94 per cent.
The commissioner general, said HMCS also reared cattle and the livestock produced 74 524 litres of milk. He said this was out of a total requirement of 52 765 litres.
Ntshangase said it was worth noting that there was a surplus of 21 759 litres.

“Expenditure incurred when producing the quantity of this commodity amounted approximately to E894 288 (E12/litre) while external procurement of the same quantity of this product would have cost the department approximately E1 117 860 (E15/litre), thus the department accumulated savings to the value of E1 043 336 and self-sufficiency stood at 100 per cent,” he explained.

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