By Mama A Touray
Baba Jarjusey, an internal auditor at the Mansakonko Area Council on Thursday disclosed at the ongoing Local Government Commission of Inquiry holdings at the Djembe Hotel that Mansakonko Area Council (MKAC) where he works has no consistency in preparing voucher numbers.
He explained that sometimes voucher numbers are duplicated because there is no consistency in the preparation of voucher numbers, so sometimes he said they are completed and sometimes not.
He told the commission that the Mansakonko Area Council does not operate a petty cash system.
In his testimony, he said he usually faces the challenge of getting data from the Finance Unit a reason he said prompted him to come up with an Excel spreadsheet where he stores information.
“There is no data for 2022 and 2023 because the vouchers do not pass through my office. The vouchers do not pass through my office for pre-auditing,” the witness reiterated.
After taking an oath, Jarjusey’s written statement and other attached documents were tendered and admitted into evidence and marked as exhibits.
The attachments admitted before the commission into evidence included the 8 November 2017 and 8 January 2019 letters sent to the CEO requesting a pre-auditing exercise and the Internal Audit Report dated February 2020.
The witness testimony continues today at the LGCI.
