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LAAC chairman, Dr Hamisi Kigwangala.PHOTO|FILE
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The committee also uncovered corruption and financial mismanagement in most district councils assessed in the last few months.
Mwanza. The Parliamentary Local
Authority Accounts Committee (LAAC) yesterday rejected the development
projects report tabled by the new Mwanza City Council executive director
after finding it short of information on the unexplained misuse of
funds.
The committee in its second tour of Mwanza City, found there was obvious disregard of financial regulations leading to misuse of public funds during implementation of many development projects as established in a report read by the new director, Mr Halipha Hida.
The parliamentary committee at its sitting at City Hall here, ordered the executive director’s office until today to have proper explanation on how it spent the money and explain why some of it got lost.
Before Mr Halipha Hida took up the office, it was under Mr Wilson Kabwe, who have since been transferred to Dar es Salaam as city director.
The same question was brought up in last year’s meeting between the Parliamentary Committee and the city director’s office regarding queries raised by the CAG report.
“The committee has established that some of these transfers are aimed at hiding the truth,” the LAAC chairman, Dr Hamisi Kigwangala said.
The committee also uncovered corruption and financial mismanagement in most district councils assessed in the last few months.
“The report on expenditure of funds allocated for various development projects doesn’t give appropriate answers to how the funds were spent,” queried Dr Kigwangala. After rejecting the report, the committee chairman ordered the city executive out of the hall to give the committee time to look at the report, and went through it for over four hours.
“The report is rejected because it is horrendous,” declared the chairman.
Dr Kigwangala claimed the money budgeted for development projects was ere misused, mostly for administration matters instead of the intended projects.
The committee in its second tour of Mwanza City, found there was obvious disregard of financial regulations leading to misuse of public funds during implementation of many development projects as established in a report read by the new director, Mr Halipha Hida.
The parliamentary committee at its sitting at City Hall here, ordered the executive director’s office until today to have proper explanation on how it spent the money and explain why some of it got lost.
Before Mr Halipha Hida took up the office, it was under Mr Wilson Kabwe, who have since been transferred to Dar es Salaam as city director.
The same question was brought up in last year’s meeting between the Parliamentary Committee and the city director’s office regarding queries raised by the CAG report.
“The committee has established that some of these transfers are aimed at hiding the truth,” the LAAC chairman, Dr Hamisi Kigwangala said.
The committee also uncovered corruption and financial mismanagement in most district councils assessed in the last few months.
“The report on expenditure of funds allocated for various development projects doesn’t give appropriate answers to how the funds were spent,” queried Dr Kigwangala. After rejecting the report, the committee chairman ordered the city executive out of the hall to give the committee time to look at the report, and went through it for over four hours.
“The report is rejected because it is horrendous,” declared the chairman.
Dr Kigwangala claimed the money budgeted for development projects was ere misused, mostly for administration matters instead of the intended projects.
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