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Date Posted: Mon, Dec 03 2007, 11:40:24am
The Office of the Rural Development was one of the Departments found is gross mismanagement and it was previously headed by the current member for Lagaim - Porgera Mr P. Kikala. If the MP knows this messes, I hope he doesn't something about it as a Vice-Minister for that Department.
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Departments in a mess: Bonga
TWO departments responsible for services delivery are in a total mess and that has resulted in the lack of services over the years.
Chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Timothy Bonga said the two departments responsible for managing and developing the country were in total disarray.
Mr Bonga said: “The Depart-ment of National Planning and Monitoring and the Office of Rural Development have profound problems in management, accountability, systems, transparency, competence, staffing, and exhibit little ability to perform their functions.”
He said these two agencies were incapable of competency and lawfully managing their own budget.
These two agencies were “unable to manage, implement, control, co-ordinate, oversee, monitor, account for, audit, apply public monies in the form of development budgets, programs or projects to any acceptable standard of competence”.
The PAC said the inability compounded by poor morale, corruption and almost total loss of command and control by management had been largely responsible for poor or non existent delivery of services and development to the remote areas and was responsible for failure to manage or co-ordinate the implementation of development programs.
“The situation is so bad that the committee could not ascertain whether hundreds of contracts funded under development programs or grants over many years have begun, are proceeding, have stopped, been terminated, been reallocated, been lawfully tendered or allocated, been completed or even exist in fact.’’
The committee also found that 70 per cent of annual development budgets had been under spent.
While these are some of the findings in these agencies, it recommended that Parliament give immediate and urgent attention to removing all powers over implementation, planning and co-ordination of development budgets and service delivery from the Department of National Planning and Monitoring and Office of Rural Development.
Mr Bonga read, “We have found a public service in appalling disarray and which has discarded any pretence of honest, competent and accountable management of public monies and properties and because it has chosen to defy the law and (is) not accountable.”
Mr Bonga said the department and the office were responsible for managing huge sums of public money and planning, managing, overseeing and accounting for development projects.
l Sack heads of depts: Bonga – Page 13.
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