Auditor General’s report slams ministries over `dangerous’ textbook accounting

In some of its sternest language, the Auditor General’s report for 2010 flayed the Ministries of Education and Finance over a $110M textbook procurement deal which it said employed a strategy to defeat the controls of the Fiscal Management and Accountability (FMA) Act of 2003.

In its examination of the accounting for goods, the Report noted that the Education Ministry had, on the basis of sole sourcing, sought and obtained approval from the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) to purchase