Monkagedi Gaotlhobogwe
3 September 2008
Government has shelved plans to buy official cars for deputy Permanent Secretaries (PS).The vehicles bought for the officials have now been diverted for general use by ministries.
If things went according to plan, the deputy Permanent Secretaries would have had full use of official cars for the first time.
Official sources say that last year, the government approved an estimated P13 million for the acquisition of 65 Subaru Legacy 2.0R cars for the deputy PS. The last batch of vehicles were recently acquired for P6,440,036.
However the Ministry of Works and Transport, which buys vehicles for government, through the Central Transport Organisation (CTO), yesterday confirmed that the 65 cars will no longer be used by the deputy Permanent Secretaries exclusively. The cars will now be for general use by ministries.
Yesterday, the Ministry of Works and Transport spokesman, Samuel Mbaiwa could not say who reversed the decision to give cars to deputy Permanent Secretaries. He said it is not common for the deputy Permanent Secretaries to be given full use official vehicles. It does not make economic sense to leave those many cars parked even when they could still be used by other officers.
The deputy Permanent Secretaries use the Subarus like they use any other available government vehicles, but not exclusively. I can also use those cars as a public officer, Mbaiwa said.
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