Probe Committee Propose Suspension Of Cashier
An inquiry board recently formed by the Torit County Commissioner to investigate missing money from land allotment has released its independent fact-finding report recommending the suspention of the county official involved in the fraud. 16 May 2013 Torit County Commissioner, German Charles Ojok. [Gurtong | File] By Peter Lokale Nakimangole TORIT, 16 May 2013 [Gurtong] – Led by Franco Rino as the Committee chair, the team says that the county main cashier has disappeared and did not present all the necessary support which could have been vouchers and other important receipts in his office. Additionally, the report presented to the commissioner reveals that during investigation processes, there was lack of cooperation from some of accounting staff, hence making the committee’s work difficult. “With the disappearance of the County’s Main Chest Cashier and lack of cooperation from some accounting staff, our work couldn’t continue as expected,” part of report reads. The committee nevertheless, has recommended that chest cashier should be suspended pending thorough investigations and be replaced by a new cashier who should be assigned by the county authorities, preferably recommended by the State Ministry of Finance. The committee also has recommended that since the main cashier vanished from the custody of security personnel, a warrant of arrest must be issued to him. Among the findings, the committee has disclosed that during the investigation work, it found money at the office being scattered and were mixed up with papers and to make it worse, they were not found in the chest. Some notes were found to have been destroyed by white ants and rats while some of the notes were found tied in rolls and others in envelopes with their respective labels with some of the labels could clearly be identified and other completely not clear. According to the report, a total amount of 26,926 SSP was found. “We found it difficult to crosscheck treasury books due to disappearance of the cashier of the main chest from the custody of the security on top of lack of cooperation from some accounting staff,” the report says. The commissioner welcomes the report and recommendations as well, while congratulating the committee for its hard work and commitment saying without which could have not attained the assigned objective. He described the works as a commendable one as he encouraged them to continue delivering impartially to the citizens without fear or favour. The commissioner named a Probe committee and commissioned it do investigate on loss money accrued from plots. The Commissioner said that county surveyors along with the county Finance Secretary did monetary collections from land applicants and the collections submitted to the county authority through the bursar but later noted wide irregularities as money went missing or disappeared silently. The team was led by Franco Rhino, with Fr. Kasiano Okito being the committee’s secretary. Other members included Philip Lokai Lopeta, Edward Terension and Asai Moses from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). Posted in: Home, Governance -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
