FARG officials grilled over shoddy, abandoned projects – The New Times | Rwanda
Top officials of the Fund for the Support of Genocide Survivors (FARG) were on Thursday tasked by lawmakers to explain errors that were noticed in coordination and implementation of their directives that cost taxpayers millions of francs.
Appearing before the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC), FARG officials were presented with over 11 mismatching errors cited in 2012/2013 Auditor General’s report.
They included; poor coordination and monitoring of the Fund’s projects, unfinished/abandoned houses for the survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, and lack of accountability reports on health funds, among others.
“Your responsibility is to monitor and coordinate FARG projects intended to support Genocide survivors. However, it seems you do not bother to follow up on the implementation and monitoring of grassroots projects,” said Théoneste Karenzi, Deputy Chairperson of PAC. FULL STORY