Oro uses experience to keep tabs on funds

THE Oro government has a programme to ensure acquittals of provincial service improvement programme (PSIP) funds are presented to the Department of Implementation and Rural Development (DIRD), Governor Gary Juffa says.
Juffa, pictured, said this when presenting PSIP acquittals the province had received for last year to DIRD office in Port Moresby on Friday.
He said, based on their experience last year in getting acquittals covering two years and presenting to DIRD, they were now putting in place a programme where funds they received and expended in the province would be acquitted and reported back to the State.
“Based on our experiences last year, we have initiated a programme to have rolling acquittals of PSIP funds that we receive and expend every year,” he told The National.
“We have officers from the DIRD also engaged there in the province to do their own compliance and due diligence checks to ascertain what we presented are facts and is substantiated on the ground,” he added.
Juffa said the funds they received last year was acquitted and for this year they were yet to receive and expand to the projects and programmes that they had in their annual budget.
“Once we receive and spend, we will continue to have rolling acquittals presented to the DIRD so there is transparency and accountability in how we spend the PSIP funds that we receive from the National Government.”