May 16, 2018-Following a series of embezzlement cases involving accounting staff at state entities, the Financial Comptroller General Office has sought legal instruments to make internal auditors of government bodies get licence in order to avoid conflict of interest and make internal audit more effective.
The proposal comes at a time when the government is working to restructure state agencies at the federal, provincial and local level through an Organisation and Management survey.
The Office of the Auditor General (OAG), in its 55th annual report, expressed its concern that staffers doing accounting and auditing of government transactions coming from the same service raises questions over the impartiality of internal audit.Internal audit is considered an inseparable part of internal…
