Finance minister Mboweni to meet provincial finance MECs on Thursday to stress the need for transparency
Finance minister Tito Mboweni to meet provincial finance MECs on Thursday to stress the need for transparencyTreasury and the auditor-general will soon issue control guidelines for accounting officers in a bid to limit misappropriation, fraud and corruption in the procurement of personal protective equipment and Covid-related goods.
Mogajane said the guidelines to be issued by the Treasury and auditor-general Kimi Makwetu would provide accounting officers with a toolkit of preventive controls to implement for procurement. “Institutions will have to provide National Treasury with the names of all PPE and protective clothing appointed service providers for publishing on the National Treasury website and analysing aggregated data across all procuring agencies.”
An attempt to introduce a centralised procurement system did not succeed and the Treasury reverted to emergency procurement, which Mogajane said “is particularly prone to exploitation”. He noted that “rampant misuse and abuse of public resources in Covid-19 related procurement” was manifest. “Politically exposed people’s participation in public procurement will require a more stringent review, including the age of the business and the history of the same or similar type of service provision.”
Mboweni said if all parties had followed the Treasury’s laid-down procurement processes there would not have been corruption. There was a prima facie case that the Treasury instructions were not followed in all cases.
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