An audit report revealed that 37 e-ticketing cards under Government’s bus fare assistance program were topped up twice with $80 in every top-up within the same month in 2019 because of the lack of proper control.
This, according to the performance audit report on the administrative and management of the bus fare assistance through e-ticketing for school children, disabled and elderly tabled in Parliament this week.
The report was tabled by Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts chair Alvick Maharaj.
In June 2019, the report also highlighted one particular card was topped up three times totalling $237.33.
“Top-up amount of $45 was the most common amount where four cards were topped-up twice,” the report said.
More reports in today’s edition of The Fiji Times.
