The
Select Committee on Lands and Regional Government of the National Assembly
could not proceed on normal business on Monday as Kanifing Municipal Council
(KMC) failed to present their financial statement for the years under review;
2016-2018 for scrutiny.
Sheriff
Njie, acting director of finance at the council, told the committee members
that the financial statement had been done but not audited by the National
Audit Office, saying that’s why they couldn’t present the documents.
Bakary
Trawally, from the National Audit Office stated that KMC was audited in 2015
but after the change of government in 2016, the executive took the
responsibility to audit KMC but without a feedback.
Billay
G. Tunkara, the vice chairman to the committee urged both the KMC officials and
National Audit Office to work together and work on the financial statement
within the time frame that was provided by the committee members so that the
committee can do their work effectively.
