Transport Ministry

Audit report for Ministry of Transport and Communication for 2010 has revealed discrepancies in the ministry’s accounts.

The report shows that problems in Transport Ministry are less compared with other ministries.

The audit report, endorsed by Auditor General Niyaz Ibrahim, noted serious discrepancies between the financial statements submitted by Transport Ministry and those included in Finance Ministry’s ledgers. Expenditure on information technology hardware worth Rf26m was included in the ministry’s statements, however not included in Finance Ministry’s General Ledger for Centre for Information Technology. Also, Transport Authority’s insurance charge on license fee recorded at Finance Ministry is Rf229935 more than what was included in the ledger.

Problems were identified with the records of money released to Regional Airports. A total of Rf47.6m was released and spent on airports according to records; however from this, Rf947014 had not been spent, and this was not reflected in the records.

The report also noted that assets were bought without going through a bidding process. Also, equipment for regional airports, which should have been bought together, had been bought separately so that the expenditure did not exceed Rf25,000; a company was assigned to work with traffic lights, and charged Rf9000 before the work commenced; a total of Rf750782 was spent on transport, but no reports were presented for these trips.

Auditor General has lately been conducting audits on several government offices and institutions and publishing the reports.