| Aguinaldo
Jaime, Assistant Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister,
has appealed to public managers and those in political posts
of responsibility to ensure more rigour and discipline in
respect of the 2005 public state budget.
Speaking
on 11 March at a seminar on budget expenditure attended by
ministers and provincial governors, he said the aim of the
workshop was to open a new era of greater accountability on
the part of everyone in rigorously complying with the objectives
set out by the Council of Ministers and the Standing Commission.
Aguinaldo
Jaime stressed that the major objectives of the government
were to consolidate and strengthen the process of macro-economic
stabilisation and to create conditions for the recovery of
national production. These two objectives, he said, could
not be achieved without rigorous management of the resources
made available to managers, as public servants.
He
went on to say that, with previous budgets, it had been repeatedly
noted at the end of the year that the major objectives had
not been attained. Sums allocated for priorities established
by higher bodies had been used for other purposes without
the knowledge of collegial government institutions, he said.
‘This
had adverse consequences, damaging the image of the government
and of the public managers themselves,’ he said.
Among
the subjects covered at the workshop were methodological aspects
of expenditure, financial programming, admissions, promotions
and wage processing, as well as stock taking, public acquisitions
and accountancy norms.
Workshops
on public expenditure for provincial representatives of the
Ministry of Finance, directors of central government study,
planning and statistics offices, secretaries-general of ministries,
members of the National Assembly and judges of the Supreme
Court and Audit Court have been taking place in Luanda since
early March.
London,
15 March 2005 |
