Somalia names Accountant General

MOGADISHU, Somalia, July 12, 2015 (Garowe Online)-Federal Government of Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has appointed Accountant General after years of graft claims, Garowe Online reports.

Mohamud picked Ahmed Yusuf Mumin (Siraji) as the Account General as part of efforts to speed up administrative efficiency, read the presidential decree.

Mumin will be responsible for fiduciary tasks including tracking the spending and revenues of the government.

The nomination has been made in the midst of reports of embezzlement that has allegedly stumbled across the offices of the country’s top political leadership.

Somalia President is blamed for providing his aide and new Galmudug President, Abdikarin Hussein Gulled with prodigious cash in the run up to regional elections weeks ago.

On June 10, Garowe Online learned that Mogadishu-based federal government has not paid Civil servants for up to four months.

At a leadership forum in Puntland capital of Garowe in May, Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud along with the leaders of Federal Member states called for review of Brussels pledges.

Donors pledged billions to rebuild Somalia and prop up the country’s economic recovery. However, pervasive corruption dealt blow to donor confidence in early 2014.

UN experts disclosed widespread corruption and how financial institutions got mired into a patronage system for private bloc within Somalia’s Federal Government in confidential report in 2013. 

GAROWE ONLINE