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AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT ON APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS AND FUND ACCOUNTS

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The Auditor General, Mildred Chiri, found that most ministries were not reconciling their salaries expenditure with the money billed by the Salaries Service Bureau. Reconciling authenticates if people paid are indeed ministry employees.

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Ministry of Agriculture does not have a credible database for the beneficiaries of the Land Reform Programme to support the outstanding revenue of ZWL$145 404 199 disclosed in the outstanding revenue return.

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The Ministry of Health and Child Care could not avail supporting documents for payments worth $2 911 172 made to various suppliers of goods and services.

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There was no evidence on how funds transferred from Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development to Infrastructural Development Bank of Zimbabwe in 2019 amounting to $657 500 000 were utilized as
only 2 out of 85 projects were completed.

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The Ministry of Home Affairs, through the Department of National Archives made payments amounting to $170 552 that were not supported by requests, receipts and goods received vouchers as proof that the recorded transactions really occurred.

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Ministry of Health and Child Care had budgeted $155 464 000 in 2019 for implementation of
key programmes including the procurement of ambulances, provision of water at
referral centres, medical equipment and refurbishment of
health institutions...

... However, only $2 137 277 (1%) was utilised on construction works of four provincial hospitals. The other key programmes were not carried out due to non-release of funds by Treasury.

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Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare did not have an Information Technology (IT) Department or Unit. The IT personnel available were from thebNational Action Plan (NAP) programme.

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In 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce purchased office furniture worth $163 464 without obtaining competitive quotations. The comparative schedule used for the direct purchase did not have written justifications for choosing the sole supplier.

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The Ministry of Finance paid $6.1 million to service providers on behalf of the Ministry of Local Government. However, only payments amounting to $3.8 million were in the Ministry’s budget support on the PFMS. No receipts from the service providers were availed for verification.

The Ministry of Local Government was using a manual system to record all the State land allocated to various Land Developers and Local Authorities and this involved a lot of paperwork. Furthermore, the manual records were incomplete and outdated.

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