OP careless with money

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The Auditor General's report for the year ended March 31 2009 has made damning observations on suspicious expenditure by some departments under the Office of the President.

Among those organizations are Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS), Botswana Defence Force (BDF), Botswana Police Service (BPS) and National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA).

The AG has found that the DIS has spent approximately P11 million on the purchase of motor vehicles and office furniture and staff training during the 2008-09 financial year. "I have not been able to appreciate why these expenditures, involving substantial amounts of money as they did, were met from the fund under which funds had not been provided, instead of from appropriate expenditure votes in Estimates of Expenditure for the year 2008/09," he said in the report.

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