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Kikwete irked by declining accountability‏
By MASATO MASATO, 26th May 2010 Daily News
PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete yesterday warned against deteriorating accountability, directing all public office bearers to assume responsibility in order to reverse the trend.
"All leaders -- politicians, public servants, religious or civil society officials -- must assume full responsibility to check deterioration on good governance," President Kikwete said when opening the Performance Audit Accountability conference in Dar es Salaam.
In a speech, read on his behalf by Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Mustafa Mkulo, Mr Kikwete decried lack of integrity, transparency and accountability among public leaders entrusted with sensitive responsibilities, saying they were duty bound to set standards and demonstrate exemplary behaviour for other people to emulate.
He described the gradual focus shift from financial statement to performance or value for money audits as "a welcome development," seeking to ensure public resources were spent as per financial rules and regulations: "We need to continually ask ourselves whether the resources are spent economically, efficiently and effectively."
The president praised the National Audit Office for "tremendous performance," over the past two years, crediting the Controller and Auditor General, Mr Ludovick Utouh, with the good work.
He said the enactment of the Public Audit Act of 2008 has greatly enhanced the operational independence of NAO, broadening the scope of audit beyond financial audit to include performance, forensic, environmental and special audits.
Mr Kikwete, however, challenged the auditors-general to become pro-active, with ability to identify potential problems early and fixing them before failure occurs, saying that governments needed recommendations that were practical and tightly focused on issues at hand.
Mr Utouh said the successful work of his office is subject to a strong political will and an enlightened, dedicated and committed government and judiciary.
"The success of performance auditing will largely depend on strong political will, and politicians ought to desire monitoring and evaluating the performance of public entities," he stressed.
He said performance audit was particularly relevant now that public entities, government ministries and departments were increasingly mandated to achieve more efficient levels of service delivery.
"Performance auditing creates a better understanding of the challenges that an entity is facing," he noted.
The Speaker of the National Assembly, Mr Samuel Sitta, said unpredictable and inadequate funding for parliament, lack of NAO's total independence and reluctance by executives to provide information to parliament, were some of the challenges impinging on effective parliamentary performance.
He underscored the effectiveness and relevance of performance audit at the time the country was grappling with issues of poverty reduction, natural growth and good governance.
