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Transport ministry incurs $2 million telephone in 3 years

6 years agoThu, 06 Jul 2017 03:37:02 GMT
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Transport ministry incurs $2 million telephone in 3 years

The National Assembly heard that the Transport Ministry incurred a $2 million telephone bill between 2012 and 2015.

In her presentation on the 2014 and 2015 Appropriation and Fund Accounts for the Transport ministry, Public Accounts Parliamentary Portfolio Committee chairperson Paurina Mpariwa said an audit revealed that the bill was incurred due to weak controls in telephone usage by members of staff. Said Mpariwa:

The audit observed that the ministry’s telephones at the head office were open to members of staff via the switchboard, but there were no controls in place to monitor and limit time spent on calls. The ministry incurred a bill amounting to $1 919 774, which has been outstanding since 2012, and the secretary (then Munesuishe Munodawafa) informed the committee that they had since installed a PABX system, which would make it possible to monitor and control usage.

Mpariwa said since the ministry installed the PABX system, telephone usage by staff has gone down, with government now paying an average $649 per month in telephone bills.

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