Mr. Emmanuel Nyenswah, Director General of the Internal Auditing AgencyMonrovia – The Internal Audit Agency (IAA) has completed phase one of its payroll audit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs which led to the discovery of over seven hundred names of unverified individuals, out of the over five thousand employees listing submitted by the ministry for payroll verification. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is amongst several government entities whose payroll are being audited, in an effort to reduce waste and support the Government of Liberia’s Pro-poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development. The purpose of the payroll audit is to get rid of non-existent or ghost names from the ministry’s payroll. This, plus the many other completed payroll audits, will enable the Internal Audit Agency to help the government of Liberia in identifying opportunities to improve the system, procedures and processes to prevent the reactivation of non-legitimate employees on government’s payroll. Payroll verification is among the top two priorities of the Internal Audit Agency for the fiscal year, with fixed asset verification and management being the other priority areas.

Source: Front Page Africa December 23, 2019 04:30 UTC