FREETOWN – Sierra Leone’s national anti-Aids coordinating agency, the National Aids Secretariat (NAS), has terminated the contracts of 30 local non-governmental organisations for poor management of project funds.
Abdul Rahman Sesay, deputy director of NAS, which coordinated Sierra Leone’s HIV-Aids programmes, said the NGOs had failed “to account for the use of some $600 000 allocated to projects between 2002 and 2004. “The money was meant for them to intervene in various HIV-Aids responses in their localities and communities for sensitisation and mobilising people to go for testings”.Sesay said that out of 30 NGOs surveyed, only 16 gave accounts on how allocated funds were used, “but their reports were unsatisfactory”, adding that all 16 had defaulted in the terms and conditions of the contracts entered into with NAS.Nampa-AFP”The money was meant for them to intervene in various HIV-Aids responses in their localities and communities for sensitisation and mobilising people to go for testings”.Sesay said that out of 30 NGOs surveyed, only 16 gave accounts on how allocated funds were used, “but their reports were unsatisfactory”, adding that all 16 had defaulted in the terms and conditions of the contracts entered into with NAS.Nampa-AFP
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