Liberia: 17 GoL Comptrollers’ Salaries Withheld
— For failure to submit annual financial statements for FY2023
The Comptroller and Accountant General (CAG) of Liberia, Elwood T. Netty, has directed that the March 2024 salaries of Comptrollers of 2024 be placed on “HOLD” for “NON-COMPLIANCE” in submitting their annual financial statements for FY2023.
The annual financial statements of various government spending entities should have been submitted to the Office of the CAG on or before March 15, 2024.
Furthermore, the CAG has instructed that the March 2024 salary of the Comptroller of each entity will be placed on hold until their respective reports are submitted to his office.
Non-Compliant Comptrollers whose salaries are being withheld for missing the March 15, 2024 deadline for the submission of the FY2023 annual financial statement are: Fambah Crayton of the National Food Assistance Agency (NFAA), Mallay Ndorbor of Paynesville City Corporation (PCC), Nathaniel Vonhm of the Independent Information Commission (IIC), Winston Willie of the Liberia Board for Nurses and Midwives (LBNM), Benard Kekula of the National Aids Commission (NAC), and Benchie Brown of the National Public Health Institute (NPHIL).
Others are: Samuel David of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Boima Barclay of the Rural Renewable Energy Agency (RREA), Armstrong Dillon of the Agricultural and Industrial Training Bureau (AITB), Kiziah Morris of the Central Agriculture Research Institute (CARI), William Nyonyon of Rubber Development Fund Incorporated (RDFI), and Onike Thomas of the National Housing and Savings Bank (NHSB).
The rest are: Charlotte Kpannah of the National Insurance Corporation of Liberia (NICOL), Emmanuel Harmon of William V.S. Tubman University, Togar Gibson of the University of Liberia, Allen Doe of the Liberia Electricity Regulatory Authority, and George Youh of the Liberia Airport Authority.
Meanwhile, Netty has reminded all comptrollers and financial managers, as well as institutions’ heads that they are to submit their first quarter (FY2024) on or before April 15, 2024.
The Comptroller and Accountant General said that the aforementioned reminder is consistent with Section 19 of the PFM Regulations. Section 19 of the PFM Regulations states: “There shall be prepared by each entity head of government agency and transmitted to the Auditor General, the Comptroller General, in respect of each quarter commencing from the beginning of the fiscal year, the accounts covering all public funds under his or her control.”