Coordination meeting of SW treasurers:

TPG Dona Achuprescribes management excellence

-Promises difficult times for defaulting accountants

By Ajongakou Santos in Buea

New SW Pay Master, AchuDonatus here exchanging with pressmen

The new Pay Master General of Buea, Mr. DonatusAchuTaboh has said he is poised to pilot the South West Financial jurisdiction to excellence. He made the revelation on Friday 8 July 2016 in Buea as he chaired the first coordination meeting of treasurers and public accountants of the South West region since his appointment as Paymaster (TPG) of the region three months ago.

                Speaking on the occasion, DonatusAchu promised to put an end to the irregularities observed in the work of some treasurers and public accountants in the region.  Identifying the late transmission of accounts, delays in submission of expenditure files, dilapidation of office buildings, broken down office furniture, inadequate logistics, poor security etc. as some problems begging for urgent solution in the treasury jurisdiction of the SW, the TPG said his first reaction will be to make the working environment conducive for his staff by rehabilitating offices and providing adequate furniture and other logistics to ease their work.

                Meantime, the TPG has cautioned Municipal Treasurers and Accountants to put their accounts in order and submit to hierarchy so that appropriate decisions can be taken especially those that will guarantee clear and timely financial reports for the Division and the Region as a whole.

                But DonatusAchu at once reminded the public accountants of the imperative need to produce sincere accounts and to ensure strict respect for texts bearing on the instructions on the production of accounts.

                Holding under the theme: “The Treasury at the Centre of Emergence”, Friday’s coordination meeting was also aimed to examine and evaluate the accounts and the functioning of Municipal Accountants since the beginning of the year and also explain the new directives from hierarchy on how and when to produce accounts.

                Officially welcoming the new TPG to Buea, the Secretary General at the South West Governors office, Mr. Clement FonNdikum exhorted DonatusAchu to ensure transparency, honesty, good governance and accountability in the handling of finances entrusted under his management.

                For his part, the representative of the Director General of Treasury insisted that Municipal Accountants and Treasurers must ensure sincerity and regular accountability in their management.

                Addressing the issue of slow execution of public contracts in the region, the Director General of Treasury called on treasurers to avoid delayed payments whenever all required documents to a particular project are available.

                Meantime, the TPG has warned that treasurers who are observed to deviate from the norms prescribed by hierarchy will have their allowances suspended.

                Deliberations also harped on the innovations contained in circular No 000909/MINFI of 31st December 2015 bearing on instructions relating to the execution of finance laws, the monitoring and control of the execution of the state budget, administrative public establishments, regional and local authorities for the 2016 Financial Year.

                The expose on the management of Revenue collection stations, reports of the activities of chiefs of services, activities of divisional and sub-divisional treasuries, accounting officers, land revenue collectors, municipal, taxation and customs treasurers were also on the meeting agenda.