FOR NONCOMPLIANCE WITH FY2023 ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT SUBMISSION
Monrovia, Liberia – 17 government comptrollers’ wages have been withheld by the Ministry of Finance and Development-Planning through the Comptroller and Accountant General due to allegations of non-compliance with the submission of yearly financial statements for the fiscal year 2023.
According to a communiqué from the Finance Ministry on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, Elwood Netty, Liberia’s comptroller and accountant general, ordered that the comptrollers’ wages for March 2024 be postponed in order to carry out the aforementioned action.
As per the press release, the Office of the Comptroller and Accountant General was supposed to receive the yearly financial statements from all government spending institutions by March 15, 2024, at the latest.
Non-Compliant Comptrollers whose salaries are being withheld for missing the March 15, 2024 deadline for the submission of the FY2023 annual financial statement are: Fambah Crayton of the National Food Assistance Agency (NFAA), Mallay Ndorbor of Paynesville City Corporation (PCC), Nathaniel Vonhm of the Independent Information Commission (IIC), Winston Willie of the Liberia Board for Nurses and Midwives (LBNM), Benard Kekula of the National Aids Commission (NAC), and Benchie Brown of the National Public Health Institute (NPHIL).
Others are: Samuel David of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Boima Barclay of the Rural Renewable Energy Agency (RREA), Armstrong Dillon of the Agricultural and Industrial Training Bureau (AITB), Kiziah Morris of the Central Agriculture Research Institute (CARI), William Nyonyon of Rubber Development Fund Incorporated (RDFI), and Onike Thomas of the National Housing and Savings Bank (NHSB).
The rest are: Charlotte Kpannah of the National Insurance Corporation of Liberia (NICOL), Emmanuel Harmon of William V.S. Tubman University, Togar Gibson of the University of Liberia, Allen Doe of the Liberia Electricity Regulatory Authority, and George Youh of the Liberia Airport Authority.
Meanwhile, Hon. Netty has reminded all comptrollers and financial managers, as well as, institutions’ heads, that they are to submit their first quarter (FY2024) on or before April 15, 2024. The Comptroller and Accountant General said that the aforementioned reminder is consistent with Section 19 of the PFM Regulations.
Section 19 of the PFM Regulations states: “There shall be prepared by each entity head of government agency and transmitted to the Auditor General, the Comptroller General, in respect of each quarter commencing from the beginning of the fiscal year, the accounts covering all public funds under his/her control.”
