FREETOWN, Oct. 11 (SALONE TIMES) –The Deputy Auditor’s General Adama Renner has told the Ministry of Finance technical team that Audit Service Sierra Leone will have to occupy the Freetown City Council building at Wallace Johnson Street for which one floor costs Le 2.5 billion.
She continued that negotiations are going on between the Audit Service Sierra Leone and the Freetown City Council but that stated that she did not want to discuss the price they have negotiated because there are other tenants occupying the said building.
This came about when Daisy Wurie Jalloh, Assistant Deputy Director of Budget at the Ministry of Finance Technical Team asked the Deputy Auditor General that during her presentation she said that they have occupied office space at the new FCC building and so she wants to know the cost of rented building by Audit Service Sierra Leone.
In another development, Renner pointed out that they are doing special audit on the Sierra Leone Correctional Services and other audit on Embassies and Ministries department agencies, Public Enterprises, Donor funded projects, Local Councils and Public accounts.
She went on to say that for audit Service to continue to do their work especially on auditing and Staff salary they have requested to the Ministry of Finance to give them the sum of Le 10.9 billion but the ministry will allocate Le 10.4 billion for the fiscal year 2022.
According to her they are not happy with the way parliament is handling the audit report but they regulate themselves.
In 2021 she highlighted that there are five key deliverables such as Audit of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and Embassies, Audit of 22 local Authorities, audit of donor projects, Audit of Public Enterprises, Audit of COVID-19 Funds, Audit of Projects (World Bank, AFDB etc.) and Audit of general-purpose financial statement, noting they have achieved all their deliverables.
