The information published in the Angolan Public Procurement Newsletter (BICPA) for the first quarter of 2020, sent to Lusa, states that the total expenditure of these bodies was estimated at 2.5 billion kwanzas.
The document stresses that the coordinator of the technical group of financial controllers of the Ministry of Finance, Pedro Ntenka, when evaluating the irregularities said that they resulted from "poor classification of expenditure, lack of proof of invoices, irregular contracts, public improbity, irregular travel allowance and password sharing".
In relation to the poor classification of expenditure, BICPA, prepared by the National Public Procurement Service of Angola, states, quoting the person responsible, that "there are difficulties in classifying them according to the rules of implementation and the rules of public procurement".
"These non-conformities are the most common and are equivalent to about 20 percent of total irregularities," the document reads.
To "eliminate the irregularities", according to the source, "they have talked to the managers to regularize the non-conformities" and when they insist "they are blocked being without the possibility of making expenses".
According to the quarterly bulletin, during the first three months of 2020, the National Public Procurement Service, assigned to the Ministry of Finance, ministered matters concerning the training and execution of public contracts to 150 managers and civil servants.
The training of civil servants in public procurement "is one of the main axes of the National Strategic Public Procurement Plan for the 2018-2022 five-year period", which is why the National Public Procurement Service "continues to engage in the ongoing training of entities linked to the procurement system".
