What were the funds mobilized for the response to the Covid-19 pandemic used for? Since January 26, the report has been on the institution’s website and is the subject of comments on social networks.
With our correspondent in Lomé, Peter Sassou Dogbe
The report reveals that contracts were awarded without a framework. At the Ministry of Commerce, for example, 31.5 tons of rice were ordered for more than 8.5 billion CFA francs without an explicit order. Nor is there any document justifying the State’s involvement in the rice procurement process.
Ditto at the Ministry of Agriculture, fertilizer orders established by mutual agreement worth 4.5 billion without competition as provided by law. Hotels and inns requisitioned by prefects in place of the Ministry of Tourism, sometimes orally, transfers made to personal bank accounts, either of hotel promoters who are members of the local response management committee, or on behalf of managers hotels or on bank accounts of a commercial structure having no connection with the hotel.
The Ministry of the Digital Economy, for its part, managed 13 billion CFA francs intended for the poorest. Togocom and Moov Africa were to transfer the envelope but nearly 800 million CFA francs were not spent and neither the Ministry of the Digital Economy nor the telephone companies deigned to respond to requests from the Court of Auditors .