Yesterday Joy FM carried a story about the pillaging of vacated government bungalows, by supposed thieves. This came to light when the Minister for Water Resources Works and Housing, Hon. Albert Abongo, visited some of these bungalows, which are mainly in Accra, with journalists to inspect them.
The Chronicle is worried about this new development, because civil and public servants have the responsibility of ensuring that before they move to occupy any government bungalow, an inventory must be taken of all the items in the house. Likewise, when the occupant is leaving the same procedure is taken, in the presence of the one leaving, and an account is taken of whatever is missing or damaged, and the necessary repairs/maintenance done before a new occupant also moves in.
This is done with the military in this country. When an officer is moving into a another military bungalow, an inventory is taken of the items in it, and the same is done when that officer is leaving, and you do not hear about things going missing with both former occupants and the institution responsible for the asset denying knowledge of what had happened to the missing items. Unfortunately, this was not done in the case under reference.
The Chronicle thinks it is high time those in positions of responsibility live up to expectations and go about their work responsibly, for whoever was responsible for this mess - whether the ex-civil/public official who occupied these bungalows or those responsible for their maintenance and upkeep - should be held accountable, so that this canker of looting state properties after using them at the expense of the taxpayer ceases, while we stop politicizing these irresponsible behaviours
Yesterday Joy FM carried a story about the pillaging of vacated government bungalows, by supposed thieves. This came to light when the Minister for Water Resources Works and Housing, Hon. Albert Abongo, visited some of these bungalows, which are mainly in Accra, with journalists to inspect them.
The Chronicle is worried about this new development, because civil and public servants have the responsibility of ensuring that before they move to occupy any government bungalow, an inventory must be taken of all the items in the house. Likewise, when the occupant is leaving the same procedure is taken, in the presence of the one leaving, and an account is taken of whatever is missing or damaged, and the necessary repairs/maintenance done before a new occupant also moves in.
This is done with the military in this country. When an officer is moving into a another military bungalow, an inventory is taken of the items in it, and the same is done when that officer is leaving, and you do not hear about things going missing with both former occupants and the institution responsible for the asset denying knowledge of what had happened to the missing items. Unfortunately, this was not done in the case under reference.
The Chronicle thinks it is high time those in positions of responsibility live up to expectations and go about their work responsibly, for whoever was responsible for this mess - whether the ex-civil/public official who occupied these bungalows or those responsible for their maintenance and upkeep - should be held accountable, so that this canker of looting state properties after using them at the expense of the taxpayer ceases, while we stop politicizing these irresponsible behaviours
