SLRSA Fails To Account For Over Le5.7 B …Revenue In Respect of Clamping, Circulation Permit & Traffic Offenses

By Aruna Momoh Kargbo

Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority (SLRSA) has failed to account for the sum of over Five Billion Leones which is equivalent to over Five Million New Leones.

This was revealed by the Protector of the Sierra Leone public purse, Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL) in their recently published Audit Report, noting that the Authority failed to submit or provide documents for the purpose of audit.

“Amounts totalling SLE212,700, SLE2,159,605 and SLE3,387,654.83 in respect of clamping, circulation permit and traffic offenses, respectively, were stated as revenue but source documents such as duplicate receipts, breakdown of totals and pay-in slips were not provided for audit review,” the Audit Report stated.

For which ASSL recommended that the Finance Director should appropriately supervise revenue management process and ensure that and ensure relevant supporting documents are forwarded to the ASSL.

“It has also been agreed from the findings that source documents are available for services relating to clamping, circulation permit and traffic offences which can be submitted during audit verification,” SLRSA responded.
Audit Service Sierra Leone maintained that the issue remains unresolved as the SLRSA did not provide documents for audit verification.