{"id":21796,"date":"2015-12-11T05:36:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T05:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/over-rwf-102-billion-misappropriated-in-local\/"},"modified":"2015-12-16T03:37:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T03:37:50","slug":"over-rwf-102-billion-misappropriated-in-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/over-rwf-102-billion-misappropriated-in-local\/","title":{"rendered":"Over Rwf 102 billion misappropriated in local governments"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Over Rwf 102 out of 1677 billion of the national budget for the year 2013\/2014 was misappropriated according to a survey by Transparency International Rwanda (TIR).}<\/p>\n

TIR review of the Auditor General report for the 2013\/2014 national budget indicates that districts and Kigali city are all culprits of misappropriating more than Rwf 102 billion public fund. <\/p>\n

The analytical report was presented yesterday with a pointing in schools, hospitals, health centers and sectors as being responsible for 94.4% of misappropriated funds from the national budget reserved for districts.<\/p>\n

Mupiganyi Appolinaire, the executive secretary of TIR attributes the loss to bad performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no public funds audit in institutions under supervision of districts yet they spend a lot of cash from the national budget. Indeed such institutions have a small number of accountants where one is responsible for many accounts and transactions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Poor judgments, bad financial management, dishonest among employees, flawed public procurement and payment of salaries to ghost employees are also among the malpractices cited in the review. <\/p>\n

The Ministry of Local Government doesn\u2019t refute the misappropriation but claims that there is a reduction of 5% of national budget mismanagement compared to 2012\/2013 budget.<\/p>\n

Vincent Munyeshyaka, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Local Government said that institutions that have been identified as mismanaging public funds are getting regular audits.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had no effective follow-up on the transactions of national budget usage. In collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and economic planning we have started making regular reports on incomes and expenditures,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Munyeshyaka highlights that the policy of regular audits will be introduced in schools and health centers not later than February 2016. <\/p>\n

The TIR review established that local administrations have improved accountability since misappropriated funds reduced from Rwf 107 billion in 2013 to Rwf 102 billion in 2014.<\/p>\n

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{Over Rwf 102 out of 1677 billion of the national budget for the year 2013\/2014 was misappropriated according to a survey by Transparency International Rwanda (TIR).} TIR review of the Auditor General report for the 2013\/2014 national budget indicates that districts and Kigali city are all culprits of misappropriating more than Rwf 102 billion public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070781,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21796.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21796.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21796.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21796.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21796.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21796.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21796"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21796"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}