SW authorizing officers drilled on budget reforms

By Ajongakou Santos & Christopher C. Nwajebe in Buea
Authorizing officers in public and some para-public services in the South West Region have been told to respect the new financial laws on budgetary and accounting legislation aimed at highly performing administration.
    The call was made by the secretary general at the South West Governor’s office, Clement Fon Ndikum while presiding at the one day information and sensitization come together for authorizing officers that took place on Thursday May 7, 2015 at the local government training center CEFAM Buea.
    Deliberating under the theme ‘the extent of responsibilities of authorizing officers in the domain of stores management’, Fon Ndikum said the colloquium was important and timely, since it comes at a time when Cameroon has taken commitments in the second phase of the public finance reforms to make it reflect national practices in relation to international norms and standard based on law No. 2007/006 of December 26, 2007, on the financial regime of the state.

    The S.G cautioned the authorizing officers to stop some deviant behavior such as, the non-appointment, at the beginning of the fiscal year of workers entrusted with stores accounting operations and the appointment of staff with no qualification which violate provisions of circular No oo2/CAB/PM of February 19, 2008.
    Participants were also urged to provide working materials to store accountants and the non-production of monthly accounts and end of year stores management accounts.
    The financial experts who expedited the seminar drilled participants on key issues such as: the elaboration of/and execution of public expenditure, the role and responsibilities of the authorizing officers within the fiscal regime of the state and the control and audit based on material of thee store management.