Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction = Actions Needed to Mitigate Inconsistencies in and Lack of Safeguards over U.S. Salary Support to Afghan Government Employees and Technical Advisors, October 29, 2010
“The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) today released an audit report, 9TH Quarterly Report to Congress, showing that the U.S. government is unable to determine how much money it has given the Afghan government in salary supplements since 2002, or how many recipients are being paid. Neither the Afghan government nor the U.S. or other international donors can account for the total number of Afghan government employees and technical advisors that receive salary support or identify how much recipients are paid due, in large part, to a general lack of transparency over that support. The Afghan Ministry of Finance (MOF) estimated that U.S. and international donors provided $45 million annually in salary support to more than 6,600 Afghan government employees and technical advisors. But these estimates were based on incomplete data. It is outrageous that the US government cant even determine the amount we pay to support Afghan government employees or how many people are paid. This lack of accountability puts U.S. money at serious risk of waste, fraud and abuse, said Special IG Arnold Fields.”
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