The 4th General Meeting of the Africa Organization of Public Account Committees (AFROPAC) has ended in Liberia with member states promising to address new waves of challenges confronting the continent.
More than 150 delegates from 22 African countries concluded a weeklong meeting at the Farmington Hotel in Margibi County, vowing to improve service delivery, ensuring transparency and proper accountability in public financial management systems.
Among other things, the AFROPAC Monrovia Conference declared it would fight corruption in public sector governance through transparency and effective legislative oversight, combat money laundering and illicit financial flows, demanding member states to pay dues and subscriptions for the survivability of the organization.
The high-level continental meeting largely ended with a review and strengthening of the organization’s new constitution, deriving solutions to tackle the continent’s rising poverty, corruption, weak public financial management systems, and the election of its new Corp of Officers who will drive it through the next two years.
“Africa has a lot of millionaires with stolen wealth,” said Mederd Labega Sseggona, newly elected chairman of AFROPAC adding “This is unacceptable. We must end corruption and poverty on the continent.”
