THE Parliamentary Chairman of Local Accounts Committee
(LAAC) has said that there are some legislators who are directly associated
with the misappropriation of funds which are accounted for the development activities
of the local government authorities in the country. Rajab .M. Mbarouk an MP for
Ole (CUF) said this in Parliament on Tuesday this week when winding up the
summary report for local government authorities as indicated in financial audit
report of the Controller Accounts General (CAG) ending June 30th
2012 which he issued on Monday this week. When summarizing his report, Mbarouk
noted that despite claims leveled against the executives of the local
government authorities detailing their poor performance as stated in his
report, there are some legislators who are directly concerned with the deterioration
of pending projects initiated for the economic development in some
district councils in the country. Elaborating on the issue, Mbarouk disclosed
that, some legislators uses their capacity to get hold of some tenders
announced for the development and once they get them, they virtually fail to
fulfill certain requirements to ensure their better performance a result of
which ended in loss of huge sums of government money. He said his committee
members discovered there were some tenders as related with the purchase of
certain equipment to be used may be for construction or supply of a commodity,
after having been acquired by some legislators do not develop. LAAC’s report had
discovered that, there are great losses of government money which have been
misappropriated in various economic developments of the local government
authorities in the country. Most of these losses were caused by not following
the right procurement process and this was discovered in various cheatings as
they are used while purchasing documents for use. Among other misappropriations of funds as
stated in LAAC’s report is the continued illegal disbursement of the salary
payments on ghost workers which has become among the hard core problem which
for many years has remained unsolved. The report noted that with the continued
habit whose solution has never been found among the executives, moreover the
progressive statistics does not indicate signs of eradicating the phenomenon
which is growing at an alarming rate. Otherwise, he noted that workers who
authorizes such payment rolls which contains names of ghost workers purporting
to be retired civil servants in their system of payment rolls, should be taken
to task and if possible legal measures should be imposed against them. The report further says that, there is a
tendency of the Minister of Local Government and Regional Administration of
transferring some executives in local government authorities once they realized
to have involved in various malpractices including corruption upon discovering
such civil servants are quickly moved to other working places. Either in the
report it is stated that some executives are promoted into higher ranking
position something which has caused suspicion among committee members, despite
of the fact that officials from the ministry have been defending the issue that
is not happening once brought before the committee to testify. This is a proof
that has brought the attention of the committee members to believe that the
ministry responsible is staggering and not committed enough, the Chairman noted
in his report and added that, the poor performance of the ministry is seen in
some district councils which he mentioned as Mewanza, Mvomero, Kishapu,
Kilindi, Bagamoyo, Same and Masasi. He further noted that, the government has
been embracing the system to defend grand corruption workers who continues to
practice mischief which wreck havoc the intended development of some district
councils in the country. Winding up the report, the Chairman has suggested the
parliament should advise the government to look at the professional capability
of the appointed minister who are able to run the entire operational activities
of the ministry of Local government and regional administration. According to
the Chairman, he ids on the view of the fact that, an experienced minister is
highly needed to run such a sensitive ministry like this one which serves
almost 90 percent of the people in the country. In his appeal, the Chairman
noted that, failure to commit his proposal, the government would continue
losing huge sums of money which are diverted into the pockets of few greedy
civil servants.
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