The Court of Auditors of Niger, the highest jurisdiction in matters of public finance control, pinpointed the management of several entities, in its report for this month of April 2022 which it has just published.
The Court of Auditors studied the operations of the State, the management of local authorities, establishments and other public bodies, projects, programs.
She also scrutinized “budgetary and financial discipline, the declarations of property of persons subject to the law and the accounts of political parties”.
It emerges from the Court’s report “a low level of implementation of its previous recommendations, particularly with regard to State operations where the total execution rate is only 46.27%”.
The court also mentions “the recurrence of certain insufficiencies such as the late filing of the settlement bill and its annexes to the Court, the absence of regularization of payments without prior authorization within the time limits required by the regulations”.
It also notes “the persistence of the problem of evaluating certain personnel and investment expenditure carried out by the State, leading to budget authorizations being exceeded, the low disbursement of project loans” as well as “non-compliance with the nomenclature budget of the State in terms of presentation, authorization and/or execution of budgetary operations”.
Among other shortcomings, the report notes “the resistance of certain personalities to submit to the laws and regulations in force in terms of declarations of assets and the poor production of the accounts of political parties, both for the annual accounts and for the accounts of the elections »
Finally, the Court of Auditors points the finger at “the poor governance of the controlled entities characterized, among other things, by malfunctions, the granting of undue advantages and the execution of irregular operations and/or without legal basis”.