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| Treasury Registrar, Mr Lawrence Mafuru. |
Mr Mafuru told the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) here yesterday that the Treasury’s Chief Internal Auditor would complete the verification exercise by the end of this month.
“We had agreed that during the first quarter of this financial year, we will be verifying the debts before starting to pay them,” he said.
He made the remarks after the committee had been told that the Government owes the National Housing Corporation (NHC) 8.5bn/-, the accumulated debts from the houses that the government rented. The state-owned real estate company also noted that the private sector owes it over 5bn/-.
Members of the committee wanted to know when the government would settle the debt with the NHC.
The Director General of the NHC, Mr Nehemiah Mchechu, however, assured the committee that they had successful talks with the Ministry of Finance and the Treasury registrar was helpful on facilitating the settlement of the debt the government owes the company.
Acting chairman of the committee, Mr Omari Kigua, directed the state-owned real estate company to ensure that it takes ideal measures in collecting revenues from debts.
Meanwhile, Mr Kigua, who is Kilindi MP, directed that the NHC should involve other government institutions responsible for setting up social infrastructures when conducting feasibility studies in areas where they plan to build houses for sale.
He said this would help in engaging those institutions to bring the required infrastructures to the respective areas.
This came after Mr Mchechu pointed out that lack of social infrastructures such as water and electricity was one of the reasons led to the selling of the houses on unaffordable prices to low income earners because the NHC is forced to incur costs of putting up such infrastructures.
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