President Samia Suluhu Hassan has ordered the country's Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) to name and shame government and parastal institutions violating financial regulations as a deterrent to misuse of public funds.
The president made the call after she had received the 2024/2025 Report presented by the Controller and Auditor General, Charkes Kichere, at the State House in Dar es Salaam yesterday.
She said the PPRA report should reveal the names of public institutions which have flouted financial regulations as condemnation to such deeds in the eyes of the public.
She said that institutions which have done badly in the management of state finances must learn from those which have excelled in the judicious use of government money entrusted to them.
Under clause 28, Act No 11 of 2008, the National Audit Office is charged with overseeing judicious management of national resources In ministries, government departments, local government public organisations and institutions.
The aim of this law, President Samia said, is to ensure protection and frugality of public funds.
Presenting his report, Controller and Auditor General Kichere said for example that the Arusha football pitch planned to cost 187 bn/- had its building price inflated to 338.54bn/-, an increase of 82 per cent.
Anti-graft czar, Crispin Chalamila, told the president that 66 out of 913 public institutions are under investigation for poor implementation of development projects.
The Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) has found out various defects in project contracts and dubious payments to contractors who never did anything, leave alone the quality of the completed projects, Chalamila said.
"I'm reminding heads of various institutions to supervise the Implementation of projects so that such defects don't occur again and again," he said
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