By: Momodou Justice Darboe
State auditors have discovered a D17m revenue shortfall at the Rating Department of the Gambia Ports Authority (GPA) and the GPA board of directors will meet later this week to dissect the auditors’ report, The Voice gathered from credible sources.
The National Audit Office (NAO) was sometime last year mobilized at the ports following reports the GPA rating unit’s staff members were allegedly issuing falsified receipts, deflating freight fees, and receiving bribes and inducements.
Auditors settled down to work in March of last year and completed their task late last week following several months of work.
Sources hinted this medium that the GPA board of directors will meet on Wednesday to knock heads together over the auditors’ finding that D17m had gone missing at the rating department from 2019 to 2022.
The specific issues to be discussed during Wednesday’s meeting were not clear to The Voice. What was clear though is that many people have started raising questions about the GPA’s ability and willingness to forestall the recurrence of such a damning discovery, how the government is going to deal with the perpetrators, and how it intends to recover the missing millions.