Serame, who was updating Parliament on Thursday said while statistics shows that GABS has been significantly functional for extended periods, from August 11, 2023 to date, the system experienced serious performance challenges. “The system became excessively slow to the point that it failed to process the normal operational requests, such as travel requests, creation of Government Purchase Order (GPO), processing of payment vouchers and general updating of the accounts payable modules. From the technical side, it showed that the system was consuming a lot of processing power (CPU) to the extent that users could barely transact. These challenges have adversely affected the execution of financial transactions especially payment to suppliers of goods and services as well as printing of annual tax certificates (ITW8),” Serame further told Parliament.
Serame indicated that her Ministry in collaboration with the Ministry of Communications, Knowledge and Technology have noted the challenges and are working around the clock to normalise the situation and find a permanent solution. She pointed out that in the interim they are implementing a controlled access plan by establishing a user roster, to ensure continued processing of receipt of revenue and payments to suppliers.
