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Government to adopt procedural guidelines for investigating financial abuse in the system

This story was posted 3 years ago
20 November 2019
in Business, General News
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by Linda Straker

  • In 2020, government will undertake comprehensive review of its recurrent and capital expenditure
  • Procedural guidelines established for investigating financial abuse in public service

Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell announced that during the first quarter of 2020, the Grenada Government will undertake a comprehensive review of its recurrent and capital expenditure as part of efforts to improve accountability in the public service.

This was disclosed while he presented the 2020 Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure as he spoke about measures to be undertaken in public expenditure reform. “The review will also provide concrete recommendations to strengthen expenditure controls and the institutional mechanism for expenditure management, as well as improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public spending,” he told the house.

Referring specifically to the cellphone scandals earlier in the year in which a number of former public servants including members of parliament had tallied thousands in cellphone use while not serving, Dr Mitchell said the entire fiasco revealed significant expenditure leakages in the system.

“The misuse of cellphones by persons within the system and those who already left the system caused a major embarrassment to the government in 2019. A complete review has been undertaken and we have the results which indicted the persons who are already out of the systems and therefore should no longer have access to the service,” he said, disclosing that steps are being taken with the service provider to recover some of the money.

“We cannot allow systemic failures to manifest themselves through irresponsible expenditure and poor accountability. We must, as a matter of priority, improve our expenditure management systems so that we can protect and consolidate the immense economic gains we have already achieved,” the Finance Minister said.

It was further disclosed that the Attorney General’s office in conjunction with the Public Service Commission has established procedural guidelines for investigating financial abuse in the system with a view to imposing disciplinary measures on public officials found guilty of such abuse.

“These procedures are expected to take full effect in January 2020,” the Prime Minister announced but did not disclose the format of disciplinary measures in the guidelines.

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  1. M. Wilson says:
    3 years ago

    This News from the Government is simply double talk hypocrisy & a sham.

    The Financial Abuses in public service is unchecked and it starts with PM Mitchell; The Big Spender, The High Roller … with his escort Boys. How is one like him … Self Investigates ? New Charades.

    The Propaganda to blow smoke in the citizens faces is simply alarming. It is because of this corruption that us in the Diaspora are noticing & exposing this for what it is: ongoing corruption that just continues to grow. Grow it must Stop.

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  2. ADM says:
    3 years ago

    Procedure for dealing with misuse of cellphone…now lets see, this should take no more than 50 words or less.
    “When no longer a public servant, you hand in your ID badge, cellphone and any other Government property on the last day of service. failure to carry out these instructions will be reported to the police as theft whereby the individual responsible will be prosecuted”.
    Now how difficult is that to produce an implement?

    Guidelines for financial abuse in the system: Any one found guilty of such abuse will be deemed to have committed “Gross Misconduct in Public Office”. The result of which is immediate dismissal and loss of pension rights. monetary loss shall be paid back immediately otherwise the individual will be subject to a period of time in Prison.
    now whats wrong with that!!

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