Bra Parrot was on holidays few weeks ago, to have some amount of rest to resume work afresh. The brave bird has the country at heart and always thinking for the betterment of this great nation.
As Bra Parrot continues to turn the pages of the Audit Report, the brave bird was quick to turn to page 200 and saw a caption, titled “Ineffective Management Disbursement,” under the Sierra Leone Ports Authority (SLPA)-2021.
Bra Parrot noticed that, transaction incurred by the Authority revealed that, a payment totaling Le 310, 245, 000 was made without adequate supporting documents such as payment vouchers, receipts, invoices, delivery notes and list of beneficiaries.
According to the report, Bra Parrot was able to see that, the Authority made corporate social responsibility (CSR) payment to various organizations and individuals, the report further revealed that there is nothing to show the basis upon which these payments were made.
Bra Parrot was quick to see from the report that no document to support samples payment of Le 384,000,000.
The brave bird also turned to page 249 of the same Audit report and saw another caption titled “Payment without adequate supporting documents,” under the National Electoral Commission: 2019-2020.
Bra Parrot noticed that, payments to the tune of Le 1,484,004,778.10 and Le 62, 460,497.00 during 2019-2020 financial years, both payments according to the report were without adequate supporting documents to justify the disbursement of the said funds.
The brave bird was also able to notice that the following documents were missing; receipt, invoices, delivery notes etc.
Bra Parrot also saw that, another payment totaling Le 862,717,250 and Le 227,119,000 regarding expenditures incurred in 2019 and 2020 financial years were without payment vouchers and supporting document, in the form of receipts, recipients, signatures, report, attendance registers etc.
As Bra Parrot continued to turn the pages of the report the brave bird turned to page 277 of the report to get more on the report.
The brave bird saw another caption titled “Unpaid levies by Mobile Network Operators and Internet Services Providers,” under the Universal Access Development Funds: 2020-2021.
According to the report, levies to the tune of Le12, 662, 897,160.96 and Le21, 412,122,288.34 for the FY 2020 and 2021 remained unpaid by mobile network operators (MNOs) and Internet service providers (ISPs), no evidence show of penalties for non-payment.
This, according to the report, contravenes section 7(1) of the Universal Access Act of 2019 which stipulates that (MNOs) and (ISPs) should pay levies based on 0.75% of gross income attributable to income tax for January and for previous years, and section 3(a)-3(b) which requires that MNOs and ISPs, who fail to comply will pay penalties and interest of not more than 25% and 5% of the levy.