The Budget and Disciplinary Committee of the Supreme State Audit Office
published the sanctions on July 29. The gov’t is scratching around the periphery.
However, public opinion holds that if Supreme state audit has left ministries
and come down to the level of services like boards, while not start with the
Police and the judiciary? More so, another school of thought holds that it is
the gov’t that keeps steering away from the powerhouses of
corruption to pick up some peripheral elements. Another question is why and how
someone steals a large amount of money and that person is only asked to pay
only a quarter. With all these, how will
the country grow?
The Budget and Disciplinary
Committee of the Supreme State Audit Office between April 4 and July 26, 2013
examined 18 cases of management errors in public finances contained in reports
from control, audit and verification missions prepared by State Inspectors. The
Committee chaired by the Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of the
Supreme State Audit, Henri Eyebe Ayissi in a press release slammed sanctions on
vote holders and institutions found guilty of management errors that cost much
to the State.
Sonara
The verification of the financial
management in the Limbe-based National Oil Refinery Company, SONARA concerns
the period 2007 to 2010. The Committee verified the files of the accounting
consultancy firms, KPMG and K§CIE, co-financial controllers of SONARA and found
them guilty of three management errors that cost the company, FCFA
3,609,387,219. As sanctions, KPMG and K§CIE were each sanctioned to pay a fine
of FCFA 2,000,000.
Matgenie
The Committee examined the file of
the WAC FIDUCIAIRE COMPTABLES consultancy firm, the financial controller of the
National Civil Engineering Pool, MATGENIE for the period 2007 to 2009. The
consultancy firm committed two management errors that cost MATGENIE FCFA
48,498,250. The committee found WAC FIDUCIAIRE COMPTABLES short of FCFA
48,498,250 within the framework of services delivery. The consultancy firm was
sanctioned to pay a special fine of FCFA 2,000,000.
GCE-Board
The verification of the management
of the General Certificate of Education Board, GCE-Board for the period 2006 to
2009 proved that its Registrar, Monono Ekema Humphrey was guilty of six
specific management errors. He was found short of FCFA 2,071,975 and slammed a
special fine of FCFA 500,000. Meanwhile the Committee discharged the Chief of
Service of Personnel in the GCE-Board, Misodi Justus on the grounds that no
management errors could be established against him. Y did they not
demand him to return everything he stole? And yet he remains the Registrar with
this kind of dirty track record. Don’t we have death penalty in Cameroon? How
in the world can u steal 2million and be asked by the so called supreme state
audit to return only 1/4 of what u stole? This country is not serious.
Former Regional Delegates
The former Regional Delegate for
Public Works for the South Region, Efoua Fono Théodore was fined FCFA 1,000,000
for two management errors that cost the State, FCFA, 200,000. The former
Provincial Delegate of the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional
Development for the North West, Ngwang Raphael was found short of FCFA
1,113,571 and slammed a special fine of FCFA 200,000 and the former Regional
Delegate of the same Ministry for the Adamawa Region, Aboubakar, was fined FCFA
500,000 for a management error related to the violation of the law on public
contracts.
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This gov't remains a disgrace to the hardworking citizens! How on earth could this be explained, why leave the big guns in their offices n go after those toying with mere thousands?
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