All People's Congress (APC) Member of Parliament representing Constituency 53 in the Port Loko District Tuesday implored his colleagues to throw their support behind the proposed 2013 Appropriation Act which is before the house for approval.
Contributing to the debate on the 2013 budget, Hon. Hassan Sheriff stated that the document is national because, according to him, it was prepared to cater for the needs of the citizenry.
"The 2013 budget is a national document and therefore should be debated honestly because MDAs are misusing the allocations given to them. As members of parliament representing our people, we should give our support to the document," he urged.
The MP pointed out that there are so many malpractices and mismanagement going on in all the ministries, departments and agencies because they lack monitoring and supervisory procedures, adding that some [MDAs] fail to pay the revenues they collect into the consolidated revenue fund (CRS).
"Parliament has the power to monitor all MDAs. Internal auditors in the different MDAs are not performing their responsibilities well. This problem has caused lots of lapses and loopholes and efforts should be made in that direction to stop it," he noted.
According to the APC honourable, malpractices in MDAs are occurring on a daily basis, hence something should be done without delay to stop the ugly trend.
Hon. Sheriff urged the Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL), Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Law Reform Commission and MPs to support government budget and programmes.
On her part, Hon. Helen Kuyembeh of the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) implored MPs to put aside partisan issues and work assiduously for the betterment of the country and the people who elected them, while also urging the government to be very careful in its spending.
She noted that procurement management systems in the MDAs are not functioning properly.
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This is a good MP. It's a wakeup call for this nation otherwise the vulnerable citizens will remain dejected, continue to live in abject poverty at the hands of the few ugly, satanic and heartless, unprogressive and backward public servants who are not even educated (educated people are refined to know what education means, integrity, honesty and all the beauty of human existence...not lowly thieves. The key word here is monitoring funds government dolls out for national development. Sadly, those who are appointed to monitor government projects goes on to conive with the authorities charged with the financial responsibilities to implement. How? They ask for a fare share of what is stolen. So who should monitor anti corruption agents? They should be overseen by a machinery from State Haouse; the President's office.
This is a good MP. It's a wakeup call for this nation otherwise the vulnerable citizens will remain dejected, continue to live in abject poverty at the hands of the few ugly, satanic and heartless, unprogressive and backward public servants who are not even educated (educated people are refined to know what education means, integrity, honesty and all the beauty of human existence...) not lowly thieves. The key word here is monitoring funds government dolls out for national development. Sadly, those who are charged to monitor government projects goes on to conive with the same authorities who are custodians of government financial responsibilities to implement national development projects. How? They ask the former for a fare share of what is stolen. So who should monitor anti corruption agents? They should be overseen by a machinery direct from State Haouse; the President's office.
This is a good MP. It's a wakeup call for this nation otherwise the citizens will remain dejected, in abject povertyu at the hands of the few ugly, satanic and heartless public servants. The key word here is monitoring funds government dolls out for national development. Sadly those who are appointed to monitor conives with the authorities charged with the responsibilities to implement for a fare share of is stolen. So who should monitors anti corruption agents. They should be overseen by State Haouse.
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