KWEKWE — A former acting headmistress at Emthonjeni Primary School and three ex-members of the School Development Association (SDA) have been implicated in a financial mismanagement scam involving more than $46 000 going back to 2008.
The alleged scam was unearthed during an audit conducted by the Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture last June.
The former headmistress and three ex-SDA members were named. Current SDA secretary Simbarashe Gudo said: “We are concerned about the unaccounted $46 015 and we want to get to the bottom of this saga. We may consider inviting the police for further investigations.”
According to the audit report, the committee could not account for the money it allegedly received between 2008 and June this year.
The audit team also noted that requisite prescribed annual general meetings, budget presentations, and income and expenditure financial presentations were not executed during the committee’s four-year tenure in office.
Part of the report reads: “Entry and recording of transactions in the current cash book ceased since February 2012. Unbanked cash was utilised for payment and the then acting head and district accountant never reported to the SDA executive committee nor the district education authorities a $15 515 cash underbanking disclosed to them by an auditor they had enlisted to audit SDA books for 2009 to 2010, thereby obstructing timeous remedial action in that regard.
“Noted amounts totalling $23 912 in cash withdrawn towards teacher incentives did not appear as paid out in the availed teacher incentives acquittal register for 2011 and 2012. Another total of $46 015 in cash withdrawn for other various payments during the period 2009 to May 2012 could not be linked to any of the availed expenditure validation documents.”
The report added: “That the then acting head has not cleared or acquitted a $1 000 travel and subsistence cash advance she received from SDA on 27/09/11 while she never successfully attended the heads conference towards which that cash advancement was directed.”
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The audit also unearthed the existence of a private nursery school set up at the school premises without government approval.
