Prepaid Credit Cards Please

 

 

 

 

 Naomi.

63 Years after Independence and our country always on the verge of Econ collapse, isn’t time to review the current colonially inspired atrocious Per Diem System?

Should the Spouse of a public official be paid Per Diem merely for accompanying his/her partner on official duty abroad?

What is the moral and legal justification for paying NON-public employee Per Diem?

Now you see why corruption is systemically endemic in this country. When they travel abroad, they go with more than 10-man delegation. You see where some of the IMF borrowed monies are going to?

Our country is broke, Revenue generation is appalling, and we rely on IMF/WORLD BANK/ADB/EU for bailouts.

Per Diem Needs to Be Looked at. There are more effective ways and they will curb corruption. Cut down on the number of travels abroad and equally cut by more than half the number of people who accompany on those trips. Start by implementing Prepaid credit cards for those officials when they travel abroad for international duty. That way if they max out their prepaid cards when they are abroad, then they have two options:

   (1)  Fund the rest of the trip using your own money until you fly back home.

OR

    (2) Cut your trip short and fly back home.

 

It is so easy for people to lavish money they did not struggle for. No wonder why there is never enough money in our treasury. Always broke.