‘PAAAFR has dealt with 65 pc of remarks raised against it’
Corrupt officers penalized: minister
KUWAIT CITY, April 25: Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and State Minister for Municipal Affairs Mohammad Al-Jabri fulfilled his promise to make necessary changes in the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAAFR) based on the observations made by the State Audit Bureau, reports Al-Rai daily.
In this regard, Al-Jabri issued a number of decisions including referring the Head of Information Technology Department and two employees to the Public Prosecution over accusations of squandering the public funds. He also deducted five-day salary of the head of the Cosmetic Agriculture Department, a supervisor and 12 employees over negligence in their duties.
Earlier, Al-Jabri had given one-week grace period to the PAAAFR administration for dealing with 50 remarks specified in the 2016 report of the State Audit Bureau.
He took relevant disciplinary Kuwait’s Chief of General Staff of the Army Lieutenant General Mohammed Al-Khader met Tuesday with visiting Commanding General of the United States Army Central, Lt Gen Michael Garrett, and his accompanied delegation. During the meeting, they discussed cooperation and issues of mutual concern, mainly military aspects, and ways to develop and enhance them, a statement by Ministry of Defense said. The meeting was attended by Assistant Chief of Staff for the army’s operations and planning department Major
General Ahmad Al-Omairi. (KUNA)
actions against 12 members of a committee that was tasked to respond to the State Audit Bureau’s report but failed to do so. This matter put PAAAFR in a critical situation and led to cancelation of its budget for the current
year.
Al-Jabri addressed the State Audit Bureau, informing it that PAAAFR has dealt with 65 percent of the remarks that were raised against it, and will soon hold a meeting to tackle the rest
of the remarks. The final report will be referred to the parliament’s Budgets and Final Accounts Committee in its next meeting in order to approve the budget of PAAAFR for the fiscal year 2016/2017.