{"id":9603,"date":"2018-07-26T08:34:27","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T08:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=9603"},"modified":"2018-07-26T08:34:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T08:34:27","slug":"burundi-parcem-accuses-government-members-of-illicit-enrichment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-parcem-accuses-government-members-of-illicit-enrichment\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi: PARCEM accuses government members of illicit enrichment"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a press conference held this July 25, the chairman of PARCEM accuses some members of Burundi government of illegally accumulating wealth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Faustin Ndikumana: \u201cThe government should conduct a sensitization campaigns about illicit revenues and implement the law on the declaration of property\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

Faustin Ndikumana, chairman of PARCEM, a local NGO involved in changing people\u2019s mindset, says government members ignore legal texts that oblige them to display their wealth at the beginning and at the end of their terms in office. \u201cIn Article 151 of the current constitution and the law of April 18, 2006, it is clear that the president of the republic, his two deputies, ministers, director generals, ministers\u2019 assistants, permanent secretaries, province governors, and communal administrators\u2026 have to declare their wealth in order to curb illicit enrichment\u201d.<\/p>\n

He says this lack of transparency which reinforces a spirit of self-enrichment and lack of foreign support reduce the country to extreme poverty. \u201cWhen there is no transparency in how financial resources are managed, a country suffers a lack of support. That is why the World Bank has invested few resources in Burundi because there is a lack of transparency in how the available resources are used\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Ndikumana, says fighting corruption is not easy because some members of the government who should combat it are involved in corruption practices. \u201cThere are high government officials who have wealth that cannot be justified if one considers what they earn,\u201d he says, adding that this discourages the population to work and earn their living in a more just way.<\/p>\n

He calls on the government to conduct a sensitization campaign about illicit revenues and implement the law on the declaration of property. \u201cThe Court of Auditors has to be empowered enough to investigate cases of illicit enrichment,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Elys\u00e9e Ndaye, President of the Court of Auditors says the latter does not sue individual cases of illicit enrichment. \u201cThe Court of Auditors\u2019 main objective is to control institutions\u2019 accounts and manage public services\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At a press conference held this July 25, the chairman of PARCEM accuses some members of Burundi government of illegally accumulating wealth. Faustin Ndikumana, chairman of PARCEM, a local NGO involved in changing people\u2019s mindset, says government members ignore legal texts that oblige them to display their wealth at the beginning and at the end […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[735,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9608,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603\/revisions\/9608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}