Sentences with phrase «protecting the public purse»

The Prophet says it makes no financial sense for a government who promised to protect the public purse, to spend such an amount on a 60th anniversary.

Simply put, democratic nations are celebrated for the robust and transparent systems they put in place that inspire the confidence of all in producing credible electoral outcomes that jealously protect the public purse and not how often courts annul elections within the electoral cycle.

On the commitments made to protect the public purse, Mr Akufo - Addo stressed that his government is «bringing back competitive tendering for all transactions in the public sector.

It is that competence, coupled with integrity in the conduct of public transactions, ensuring value - for - money, protecting the public purse, that are going to bring the dream of a happy and prosperous Ghana, a Ghana Beyond Aid, quickly within our grasp.

Mr. Speaker, expenditures were generally controlled to minimize overruns due to the strict usage of the GIFMIS as well as the implementation of quartely cash allotments to MDAs.We are also seeing a new commitment in public procurements to protect the public purse.

It will enable Parliament to help in the fight against corruption and thereby protect the public purse.

President Akufo Addo promised he will not shield corrupt appointees under his watch, and that he will protect the public purse, this is a test case for the president to cause investigations into the matter by the appropriate body and to allow the perpetrators put before the law court.

I have promised to protect the public purse, and I am doing just that.

Having led the West African country of Ghana for only 16 months after a campaign that rode on the promise of protecting the public purse for the sake of the ordinary citizen, this news in the real estate market of London send many a tongue wagging dejavu.

The findings were revealed in a highly critical report called Protecting the Public Purse, which says councils are not doing nearly enough to tackle fraud.

«Contrary to the NPP's promises to protect the public purse; president Akufo - Addo has done exactly the opposite.»

Mr Amidu noted his deepest desire is to setup an office which will eradicate corruption in Ghana, and protect the public purse.

The Chinese Government has applauded President Nana Akufo - Addo and the Minister of State in charge of Public Procurement, Sarah Adwoa Safo, for what it says is their commitment to protecting the public purse.

Conciliation and arbitration processes were included but further safeguards, presumably intended to protect the public purse, allowed a position where the Government of the day, through the Home Secretary, could overule the decisions of the arbiters.

The NDC chairman said the size of the government was inconsistent with Akufo - Addo pledge to protect the public purse.

Someone is involved in corruption, the laws are there, the institutional frameworks are there and the courts are there, but once a politician, public servant or anybody else who is supposed to protect the public purse engages in corruption, our attitude towards dealing with it has not been good,» he stated.

«Protecting the public purse implies among others avoiding a large and unwieldy government that becomes a drain on the state resources.

We have been told by the government propagandists that the appointment of this humongous number of ministers is a way of protecting the public purse.

Second, the appointments betray inadequate sensitivity to the weak fiscal condition of the country today, as it flies in the face of the President's promise to protect the public purse.

The Minister called on all citizens to help protect the public purse as Government commits to bringing «Ghana beyond Aid»

The release issued on Thursday March 16, 2017, said «appointments betray inadequate sensitivity to the weak fiscal condition of the country today, as it flies in the face of the President's promise to protect the public purse.»

It is difficult to see how appointing such a large number of ministers, who will all be on ministerial salaries and benefits, can possibly amount to the promise of protecting the public purse.

Speaking at a Media Encounter on Wednesday as part of his one - year stay in office at the Flagstaff House, the President said his government is working tirelessly to protect the public purse as he promised prior to election 2016.

«When the president was giving his inaugural speech, he promised to protect the public purse but the fact is that 110 ministers will put great pressure on the public purse.

With the greatest of Honor, If you find anything wrong be it Corruption or Misappropriation and Mismanagement, kindly be frontal and deal with it in Court; after all you pledged to protect the Public Purse or?

The Audit Commission, responsible for protecting the public purse, found that councils made # 10.2 bn in 2011/12 by charging for rubbish, funerals and other domestic services.

«In order to protect the public purse by ensuring maximum gains through economies of scale, the Ministry of...

The Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye has urged new members of 7th parliament to work diligently to protect the public purse.

This kind of casual attitude to spending taxpayers» cash undermines faith in the public sector and is yet more evidence of how under Labour the Audit Commission forgot that its job was to protect the public purse.»

Corruption is not a partisan matter, and we must all act to protect the public purse.

«Continuing such arrangements in this knowledge knowingly exposes the council to expensive claims that it will ultimately lose and would be an inappropriate approach to the council's fiduciary obligation to protect the public purse.»

But do codes of professional conduct capture the legal ethics needed to protect the public purse?

Not exact matches

So eager are the bishops to protect the children, their diocesan purse, and their own public image.

The public purse, should be, and must be protected, even at the EC.

The Strategic Thinkers Network - Africa (STRANEK) is of the strong view that the list of staffers at the Presidency as submitted to Parliament in accordance with section 11 of the Presidential Office Act, 1993 (Act 463) results in a wasteful expenditure which is not in tandem with President Akufo Addo's policy of protecting and saving the public purse from profligate expenditure and wanton abuse.

Executive Director of ASEPA, Mensah Thompson is worried the development is draining the very public purse Nana Akufo - Addo promised to protect.

One of the Committee's recommendations: «An assumption of the employment status of «worker» by default, rather than «self - employed» by default, would protect both those workers and the public purse.

There needs to be much firmer legislation to prevent this, or at the least they should not expect to be protected out of the public purse.