The PAC has done its job

We carry in this edition an analysis from the Member of Parliament for Lobatse, Nehemiah Modubule, who also chairs the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Modubule served on the committee and several others for many years prior to his chairmanship of the PAC.

In his analysis, Modubule laments the lack of measures in place to deal with civil servants who fail to comply with government financial regulations, a failure that he notes often results in government projects being completed way after their initial completion dates, resulting in huge costs to the taxpayer.

Inspite of the same officers appearing before the PAC almost every year, there is no sign or willingness to improve from their side.  The thrust of Modubule's analysis is that this state of affairs continues at our collective peril as a nation.  It is time something is done about officers who fail to comply with the financial rules and regulations if indeed we are committed to becoming a corruption-free country.

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