The long-standing anomaly associated with the misallocating of sums voted as “subvention and capital provision” for the Ministry of Agriculture to the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) has again attracted unfavourable comment in the Report of the Auditor General.
In defiance of the Auditor General’s recommendation made in previous years that the NDIA maintain its own accounting system, the Ministry of Agriculture, in 2012, allocated $4.704 billion from its subvention and capital; provisions to the operation of the NDIA.
The Auditor General’s Report said that in 2011, the ministry had expended the
