Transition: 18,000 state vehicles counted by Administrator General
The Office of the Administrator General has collected information on 18,000 vehicles belonging to government Ministries, Municipalities, Metropolitan Authorities, District Assemblies, Agencies and independent constitutional organisations.
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The exercise is in keeping with the mandate of the Office to take an inventory of government assets for their smooth transfer to the in-coming administration after the December 7, 2016 General Election.
Method
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.
Information had been collected on the model of vehicles, their make, chassis numbers, the year of purchase and registration numbers.
Information has also been collected on the person currently using the vehicle and the state of a vehicle, which was classified as serviceable, unserviceable, auctioned or lost.
That, Mr Akitame explained was to keep track of the vehicle and help in tracing it.
He recounted how a vehicle belonging to one of the ministries had been classified as lost only for it to be traced to a mechanic shop, abandoned there.
Reconcile
The information collected so far, according to Mr Akitame, did not cover all vehicles owned by the government.
However, the Office of the Administrator General “having facilitated the completion of handing over notes, which have been forwarded to the President, all information on government vehicles and vehicles of independent bodies would be available in the notes for us to easily reconcile on our database,” Mr Akitame said.
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