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We All Go Into Government To Eat Those are the infamous words that have gone on to be legendary in Zambian Politics. And the report below from the Auditor Generals report on some happenings at the Ministry of Justice may bring those words some form of life. A total amount of K1,295,000,000 involving twenty three (23) transactions was paid as meal allowance to twenty three (23) officers who had undertaken various programmes and activities such as capturing payments in IFMIS, updating the asset register, working on 4th quarter, 2012 outstanding bills, and cleanup of records among others. However, an analytical review of records carried out at the Ministry revealed that the twenty three (23) officers claimed meal allowances for days ranging from 375 to 1,838 at the approved rate of K50, 000 per day. The number of days claimed by each officer was more than the three hundred and sixty five (365) days available in a year. Based on the number of days in a year, the maximum amount that could have been claimed by the officers was K419, 750,000. Therefore, the payment of the extra K875,250,000 was irregular. However, even with the assumption that the K419, 750,000 was correctly paid, it would be incomprehensible to imagine that the officers were claiming allowances every day of the year. In addition, among the twenty three (23) officers who were paid the meal allowances were seven (7) officers who were on leave during the period they were paid the meal allowances. Although in his response dated 5th November 2013, the Controlling Officer stated that Management had put in place measures to ensure that supervision is improved and that officers are correctly paid, no recoveries of the overpaid amounts had been effected as of December 2013. Source-Auditor General’s Report 2012
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:02:20 +0000

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