AMMAN — The
Lower House Financial
Committee, chaired by Mohammed Al-Saudi, embarked on discussing the Audit
Bureau’s report for the years 2018, 2019, and 2021, according to Al-Mamlakeh
TV.
اضافة اعلان
Saudi said that the committee discussed the clarifications and the
violations stated in the reports in relation to a number of public
universities, including the University of Jordan, Mutah University, the
Hashemite University, and
Jordan University of Science and Technology. The session was
attended by the Audit Bureau Secretary General Ibrahim Al-Majali as well as
presidents and representatives of the respective universities.
The committee recommended to refer a number of violations through the
government to the judiciary, and refer other offences to the
Integrity and Anti-Corruption Commission (IACC), “as well as to retrieve unlawfully spent
money” said Saudi, in addition to forming joint committees between the
universities and the audit bureau to look into end-of-service remuneration for
employees appointed prior to 2013 to investigate the eligibility of those
compensations.
Saudi pointed out that the clarifications addressed the parallel
education program incentives, paid to academic and administrative staff, which
amounted to JD55.941 million in 2019.
The meeting noted that “incentives were aimed at safeguarding academic
expertise and that the financial burdens of public
universities have resulted
in the current fiscal deficit that is sustained by some, and in the rise in
accumulated debts.
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