Santo Domingo.-After the defense of his management presented by the current members of the Chamber of Accounts, who have been evaluated to continue in the organization, criticism of his performance has not been lacking.
Yesterday, the president of the commission that carries out the evaluations in the Chamber of Deputies, Rogelio Genao Lanza, described the work of the current management as poor.
“We are not going to make a judgment on anyone in particular, but we can give a judgment on a group of what has been the overall performance of the Accounts Chamber, there was even a Congressional investigation in that sense, and how can we see and as they are in the reports that the Chamber of Accounts itself presents to the National Congress, they have been poor.”
He gave as an example that for the year 2023, of the eighty audits planned to be carried out, only two reports were presented.
“If we calculate this in their budget, which is 1.4 billion pesos, each audit cost 700 million. The work has been poor in that sense, and we as a commission are focused on an election of a new Chamber of Accounts that is going to do its job, that is productive, that internal conflicts are not what reigns, but work.”
Joseph Abreu, coordinator of Citizen Participation Transparency, believes in a similar way.
“The two processes that he brought out were basically the balance they make of budget execution.
Audit as such did not issue any and circumstantially made special reports to support cases of corruption, those were issued, but audit within the regular programming we did not see any published in the Chamber of Accounts on the date the report was published.” , declared Abreu.
He assured that in summary, Citizen Participation described the current management as ineffective.
“As the current president mentioned, at the beginning of the conflicts we were invited to try to mediate… but they could not resolve it.”
He pointed out, however, that there was progress in regulatory matters with the approval of a new law.
“There was already a regulation that was approved for sworn declarations of assets of officials, a new platform that they launched, which is much more transparent, which allows for more adequate oversight,” said Abreu.
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The evaluation process for candidates for the Chamber of Accounts is scheduled to conclude next Thursday. Yesterday, there were 140 evaluated out of approximately 200 total candidates, as some declined.
