Jaruvan dreams of new auditing
The Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) will request constitution drafters to include in the new charter a provision that establishes a Court of Auditors to audit fiscal budgets, Auditor-General Khunying Jaruvan Maintaka said yesterday.
Jaruvan said the OAG had received funds from the World Bank to research and develop a committee to audit fiscal budgets into a Court of Auditors or Court of Accounts, which is based on the French "Cour des Comptes".The Cour des Comptes is an institution of the French government whose duty is to audit public and some private institutions. It checks whether their accounting is up to standard and whether public funds have been well employed. The OAG will request the Constitution Drafting Committee to include the establishment of a Court of Auditors in the draft. "I have a dream that the work of the OAG will be only as prosecutors and the Court of Auditors will rule on the case. Judges who issue verdicts and hand down punishment for this court will be officials in the OAG,'' she said. Jaruvan said she would seek to reduce the number of commissioners of the State Audit Commission, which currently has 10 members, and specify the qualifications of commissioners to be more knowledgeable in auditing. The Nation
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