MPs Tell Tororo To Recover Sh38m
Sep 16, 2002
MEMBERS of Parliament have asked Tororo district officials to recover sh38m the district lost on ghost teachers’ salaries for the financial year ending June 1999.<br>The money, queried in the Auditor General’s report now before Parliament, appears to
By Cyprian Musoke
MEMBERS of Parliament have asked Tororo district officials to recover sh38m the district lost on ghost teachers’ salaries for the financial year ending June 1999.
The money, queried in the Auditor General’s report now before Parliament, appears to have been embezzled.
The Auditor General recommended in his report that action should be taken to recover the loss.
“A sum of sh38.5m was paid as teachers’ salaries between September 1997 and August 1998. However, it was discovered in the course of audit that the teachers were non-existent,†the Auditor General said.
“To date, the fate of the money is not known. It would appear that the money was embezzled. Action should be taken to recover the loss,†the report said.
Appearing before the parliamentary local government accounts committee on Monday to answer the charges, the chief administrative officer, S. P. O. Oboth, said the suspects in the fraud were prosecuted, but all of them were acquitted.
Oboth, who appeared for second time with his chief finance officer, Matthew Alinga, was also asked to explain a sh339m shortfall in revenue collection.
“The collection of development and education tax was linked to the graduated tax and was therefore affected in the same manner,†he said. Ends
MEMBERS of Parliament have asked Tororo district officials to recover sh38m the district lost on ghost teachers’ salaries for the financial year ending June 1999.
The money, queried in the Auditor General’s report now before Parliament, appears to have been embezzled.
The Auditor General recommended in his report that action should be taken to recover the loss.
“A sum of sh38.5m was paid as teachers’ salaries between September 1997 and August 1998. However, it was discovered in the course of audit that the teachers were non-existent,†the Auditor General said.
“To date, the fate of the money is not known. It would appear that the money was embezzled. Action should be taken to recover the loss,†the report said.
Appearing before the parliamentary local government accounts committee on Monday to answer the charges, the chief administrative officer, S. P. O. Oboth, said the suspects in the fraud were prosecuted, but all of them were acquitted.
Oboth, who appeared for second time with his chief finance officer, Matthew Alinga, was also asked to explain a sh339m shortfall in revenue collection.
“The collection of development and education tax was linked to the graduated tax and was therefore affected in the same manner,†he said. Ends