Press Statement on The Auditor General’s Report on The Accounts of The Republic For The Financial Year Ended 31St December, 2013
Abstract
The Report is rather gloomy and bleak in respect of the utility of public resources pointing to prevalence of resource disutility in the public service. There are many questions than answers regarding the operation of the public service. In this era with the Integrated Financial Management System (IFMIS), it is questionable how cases of overpayments and irregular payments can be on the increase. The overall and aggregate notion in the 2013 Auditor General Report is that we have an inefficient and ineffective public service system
that spends more resources than the services and goods it delivers.
Description
The 2013 Auditor General’s Report is one of concern that when there is abuse of public resources the majority poor suffers the more on a general scale. To a large extent majority of the people in Zambia rely on public services and goods. Often, abuse of public resources leads to accessing low standard public goods and services which effectively affect the poor negatively and further deteriorates their already worse-off situation.