The Assistant Undersecretary for Financial Affairs in the Ministry of Education, Chairman of the Committee for preparing responses to the observations of the Audit Bureau, Youssef Al-Najjar, called on all sectors of the ministry, its observers, its departments, and the general administrations of educational regions and schools, to facilitate the tasks of the audit team of the Audit Bureau, and to provide all information and data necessary, in order to facilitate their performance of the tasks assigned to them according to the law establishing the Audit Bureau 30/64.
Al-Najjar mentioned the team consists of 6 members, headed by a chief auditor and membership of 5 others. An educational source revealed to ‘Al-Rai’ there is a noticeable decrease in the notes recorded in the Ministry of Education for the current fiscal, similar to last year during the “Corona” pandemic, confirming that many of the observations were corrected and the papers and documents supporting them were submitted, especially after the undersecretaries of the sectors were included in the response preparation team.
The source pointed out that the most frequent observations made by the Audit Bureau are the unlawful disbursement of money to employees in salaries and bonuses, and the weakness of the procedures for collecting the disbursed money from them through deductions from monthly salary, citing weak procedures, due to the failure to activate the procedures for automatic linking between educational areas and the Ministry’s general office.
