Accra, Jan.28, GNA – Ghana’s 2020 State Possession Document has published that majority of state-owned enterprises, three way partnership firms and different enterprises underneath the State Pursuits and Governance Authority (SIGA) recorded combination losses amounting to GHc5.
The 183 specified entities underneath SIGA, 50 in step with cent of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), 63 in step with cent of three way partnership firms (JVCs) and 34 % of the opposite state enterprises (OSEs) recorded monetary losses and deficits.
Moreover, best 31 out of 51 SOEs, 22 out of 89 OSEs and 23 out of 43 JVCs had submitted their monetary statements to the Minister of Finance as on the finish of December 2021.
Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister, mentioned in view of the non-compliance with the Public Monetary Control Act, 2016, (Act 921), the Public Monetary Control Law and SIGA Act, 2019 (Act 990) by means of SOEs, JVCs and OSEs, the Ministry would, henceforth, no longer imagine any request for presidency fortify from any entity that failed to fulfill the reporting necessities.
In session with the Minister for Public Enterprises, Mr Joseph Cudjoe, the Finance minister has directed SIGA’s Director-Common, Ambassador Edward Boateng, to be sure that the fitting sanctions and consequences have been implemented to the offending organisations together with advice for the elimination of the participants of the governing board.
Mr Ofori-Atta mentioned this on Friday in a speech learn on his behalf on the opening of the 2022 Coverage and Governance Discussion board of SIGA in Accra, at the theme: “Making improvements to the Efficiency of Specified Entities: Management and Era”.
Within the quick to medium time period govt is predicted to put in force a financing coverage for specified entities, in particular SOEs, which anchored on 3 primary rules.
Those are: the requirement for specified entities to function at the power in their stability sheet, capitalisation of any specified entities to be funded best throughout the sale of its strategic belongings no longer drawn from tax income or added to public handbag, and the transparent difference of price of SOEs and JVCs from their industrial actions and the ones incurred in exercising their public coverage framework.
Mr Ofori-Atta, subsequently, instructed forums and control of state enterprises to leverage on suitable gear of era to enhance on their control operations.
They will have to additionally undertake leading edge trade fashions to support productiveness, industrial viability and monetary sustainability.
The Minister was once of the conclusion that efficient management was once necessary for breaking the inefficient state enterprises and assembly the calls for of the efficiency contracts signed with govt.
SIGA changed the Divestiture Implementation Committee and the State Enterprises Fee mandated to streamline the operations of SOEs, JVCs and OSEs to advertise sound governance and optimum institutional efficiency to cause them to successful.