Times Of Swaziland: PAC RECOVERED OVER E100M UNDER THULI DLADLA

PAC RECOVERED OVER E100M UNDER THULI DLADLA
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BY BONISILE MAKHUBU on 17/11/2018 08:35:00


MBABANE – Under the leadership of Thuli Dladla between the years 2009-2018 the
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) recovered over E100 million.
Central Bank of Eswatini Governor Majozi Sithole announced that government was
losing E80 million per month due to corruption.
Sithole said while the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) was seen to be fighting
corruption, there was a dire need to set up courts specifically for trying
corruption cases.
Tactics
The PAC, which was led by now Minister for Foreign Affairs and International
Cooperation Thuli Dladla, used tactics which allowed it literacy in collecting
the money from the people involved.
While previously, the PAC only recommended that the culprits be reported to the
police or be taken for disciplinary hearings, Dladla was of the view that they
should also pay back the misappropriated funds.
“We would make those recommendations and entrust the controlling officers to
make sure that the money was recovered but each time we made follow-ups one or
two years later, it would turn out they had not collected it. So we decided to
take it upon ourselves,” said Dladla when commenting on the PAC’s
achievements under her leadership.
embezzled
She said the great team she worked with, together with the clerks, supported her
to make sure that the money embezzled by the civil servants and suppliers was
paid back to government.
Records reflect that between 2015 and 2017 over E49 million was recovered.
In 2015 money that was paid back amounted to E19 120 284, the following year it
was E14 903 266 and in 2017, it was E15 900 118.
Dladla explained that taking the front seat when dealing with these matters
helped a lot, especially in other countries where they travelled to because
there was high respect for Parliament.
“We went to recover government’s money in countries such as Kenya, South
Africa, Mozambique and Denmark. We were successful because most of these
countries held Parliament as an institution of high esteem and they made sure
that due action was taken,” she said.