Gov’t still abusing Contingencies Fund – Goolsarran

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran says government is still misusing supplementary financial papers and abusing the Contingencies Fund and pointed to a number of instances in the latest requests made to the House where this trend continues.

He accused government of tapping the Contingencies Fund to meet routine expenditure which does not qualify for such use. The three financial papers tabled last Thursday total $12.384 billion consisting of current and capital expenditure. They will be considered by the Committee of Supply at the next sitting of the National Assembly.

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