By Binta Jaiteh
The board chairman of the National Food Security and Marketing Authorities has informed the lawmakers that the institution is being a victim of negligence for many years.
Lalo Touray, board chairman confirmed that “the institution is a victim of neglect for many years in existence. We don’t have the infrastructure to take care of our mandate. The institution has a lot of problems from the memorandum of association and article of understanding.”
“The board is struggling to catch up in presenting this important document. Basically, we have a lot of work to do and I urge the PEC committee to conduct site visiting to the provinces to know what is on-going on the ground,” she added.
MD Muhammed Touray said they wish to continue and work together to guide them along to improve the affairs of the institution. There is a specific standard in evaluation of inventories because of groundnut.”
However, the institution is trying to develop a strong standard of cooperation procedure that will guide systems of buying the groundnuts. The management is currently doing that to setup a department that will surely be responsible for designing that policy. It is very difficult to value groundnut heaps at the end of the year using weight scale,” he said
Honorbale Halifa Sallah and members move a motion to adjourn the session for a site visit of the institution. This will allow them to gather necessary information which will enable the members to be judicious in the activity report and financial statement of GGC cum NFSM for consideration.
He said public enterprise shall in three months at end of each financial year submit a report to the committee, adding that “it is the mandate of the committee to extend the time of submission of report and the memorandum states that exceed capacity.”