Grace Ngaana | February 7, 2023
The Public Accounts Commission (PAC) is now seeking to deny funding to ministries and state-owned enterprises headed by officials who did not appear in parliament and answer audit questions.
The committee came up with this recommendation to ensure that the Cabinet Secretariat honors the subpoena.
PAC Chairman John Mbadi said it was time for Congress to be more rigorous to ensure accounting for the funds allocated to the agency.
“Departments that ignore PAC requests to account for allocated funds will run short of cash. We are making this recommendation to Congress because there is support in the law for imposing such sanctions.” said the nominated member of parliament.
This was confirmed by Chris Kiptoo, Chief Secretary of the Treasury Department, when appearing before the Committee to address 47 questions raised by the Comptroller General from audited accounts for fiscal year 2020/2021. It happened after I was unable to lead the ministry team.
However, in a letter to the Clerk of Parliament, Dr Kiptoo requested that the meeting be rescheduled, but did not get along with members of the committee who claimed that the reasons given by the PS did not make sense. .
Part of the letter Hong Mbadi submitted to the committee said, “Due to the urgency of the task, the committee requested to change the attendance of the Ministry of Finance committee from 6 February to 21 February. I will.”
However, the PAC chair said he would not accept rescheduling the meeting “due to witnesses being summoned to appear before the committee because it would interfere with the PAC’s busy schedule.”
“If government ministries are not prepared to account for the money allocated to them from the state treasury, they do not deserve more allocations,” he added.
Mbadi said the PAC had already prepared a three-month schedule to investigate audited accounts of ministries and state-owned enterprises, would not allow attempts to slow the process, and would make sure to attend everyone summoned by the committee. I urged you to
Rugali MP Hong Nabiy Nabwela said the PAC had given the finance ministry enough time to contact them and submit a response that it was a disrespectful move against the commission and its members.
“We have to change the way we used to treat it. The Commission should firmly tackle ministries or state-owned enterprises that do not appear before the Commission to defend their claims about the expenditure of public resources. ‘ said Nabii.
Kiptoo is scheduled to attend the committee on February 16th instead of February 21st as he requested.
