By Phephile Motau | 2021-03-01
Mbabane - OVER E57.4 million of governments funds were allocated to discontinued ministries and departments.
This was revealed by Auditor General Timothy Matsebula in his report of the consolidated government accounts for the year ended March 31, 2020.
Matsebula said discontinued ministries and departments were allocated unauthorised budgets worth over E57 432 601, of which E14 393 656 was released. “I observed that E57 432 601 was allocated to abolished ministries and departments.
Furthermore, E14 393 656 was released to non-existing ministries and departments. Some ministries had limited budgets, yet funds were allocated and released to discontinued ministries and departments,” he said.
The report states that the ministry of enterprise and employment was allocated an unauthorised budget of E57 959, of which E4 829 was released.
The discontinued Department of Taxes was allocated an unauthorised budget of E22 839 173 and E5 700 051 was released.
The same goes for the discontinued Customs and Excise department, which was allocated an unauthorised budget of E34 462 906 and E8 607 213 was released.
Matsebula further said he also observed that there were unauthorised budgets amounting to E131 071 157 captured in the Government Accounting System and disclosed in the Detailed Statement of Recurrent Expenditure – Appendix 7, which were not appropriated by Parliament.
This was noted when comparing appropriated budget as itemised in the Detailed Statement of Recurrent Expenditure with the Approved Budget (Estimate) Book and Appropriation Act passed by Parliament, he said.
He further said he did not get an explanation why un-authorised funds were allocated to non-existing and discontinued government entities.
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