Admin General takes inventory of state vehicles for transfer to new govt
As part of preparations for the smooth transfer of state assets to the incoming administration after the December 7, 2016 general election, the Office of the Administrator General has collected information on 18,000 vehicles belonging to ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) and independent constitutional organisations.
Advertisement
The exercise is in keeping with the mandate of the office to take an inventory of government assets for their smooth transfer to the incoming administration after the general election.
In an interview in Accra, a planning officer with the Office of the Administrator General, Mr Walter Adabere Akitame, explained that the office had devised a template for the collection of data on the more than 18,000 vehicles.
Details
Information has been collected on the model of vehicles, their make, chassis numbers, year of purchase and registration numbers.
Information has also been collected on the persons currently using the vehicles and their state, which has been classified as serviceable, unserviceable, auctioned or lost.
That, Mr Akitame explained, was to keep track of the vehicles.
Asked if the 18,000 vehicles were the entire fleet owned by the government and the independent organisations, he said the office was unable to conclusively give the total number of vehicles owned by the government at the moment.
He said the figure was based on information presented by heads of the MDAs, regional and district coordinating councils and independent bodies.
For his part, the Administrator General of the Presidential Estates Unit (PEU), Mr David Yaro, said the office was on course with the work of ensuring a smooth transition by proper stock-taking of government assets.
LI on Transitional Act 2009
Although dissatisfied with the fact that the Legislative Instrument (LI) that backed the Transition Act did not properly define some gaps in the law; for instance, the Administrator General and his relationship with the Transition Team, Mr Yaro said the unit was going ahead with its work.
The LI was considered by Parliament last month.
Apart from shortening the period of meeting of the transitional team and empowering the office to eject outgoing officials from government bungalows, the LI was silent on the concerns of the Administrator General, which were stated in a letter to the Attorney-General.
For instance, making the Administrator General part of the transition team, because of the critical role the office plays in the process, was not considered by Parliament.
