{"id":73150,"date":"2015-03-08T20:34:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T20:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=73150"},"modified":"2015-03-08T20:34:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T20:34:35","slug":"parliament-probes-into-procurement-supply-for-20-ambulances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=73150","title":{"rendered":"Parliament probes into procurement supply for 20 Ambulances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Public Account Committee in parliament on Wednesday 4<sup>th<\/sup> march 2015 continued \u00a0its hearing on the Report on the Management of the Ebola Funds by probing in to the finances of Ministries , Department and Agencies on the Ebola activities in the country \u00a0(photo: <em>Officials from the ministry of health answering questions to the PAC in parliament )<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arraigned before the committee were officials of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation dealing with procurement on the supply of 20 Ambulance valued at $1.05<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Audit report ,the 20 Ambulances were requested by the Ministry of Health on the ongoing fight against the Ebola disease \u00a0in the country\u00a0 and only 16 arrived\u00a0 as \u00a04 were not accounted for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chairman and members of the Committee asked about the status\u00a0 of the \u00a0remaining Ambulances status to which the Chief Procumbent Officer \u00a0Ibrahim Brima Swerry and Mohamed Paul Karma of Kingdom Security Logistics\u00a0 replied\u00a0 that they are in Dubai\u00a0 awaiting shipment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Committee however ordered that the four remaining vehicles \u00a0be brought in as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Members of the Committee raised serious concerns \u00a0on procurement rules flouted and in which they noted all issues raised by the audit report will be addressed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Officials from the Makeni Government hospital were\u00a0 also arraigned \u00a0before the committee on incentive payment to health care workers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After deliberations on the matter, the PAC decided to stand them down for further clarification on their documentation .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The committee hearings were adjourned to Friday the 6 of March 2015 when Charles Mambu and KPMG Audit Firm will be in attendance.<\/p>\n<address><em>Department of Public Relations<\/em><\/address>\n<address><em>House of Parliament, Freetown, Sierra Leone<\/em><\/address>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Account Committee in parliament on Wednesday 4th march 2015 continued \u00a0its hearing on the Report on the Management of the Ebola Funds by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":73151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,673,692],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-national-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}