Lesotho: Oversight Institutions Lament Underfunding

…say lack of resources crippling their operations

… plead for full autonomy to be more effective

LESOTHO’s oversight institutions have lamented their underfunding by the state, which they say hampers their offices from efficiently executing their mandates.

According to these institutions, whose primary mandates range from reining in corruption, auditing government books, to keeping it in check and holding it accountable where necessary, their slim annual budgets could not cater for the mammoth…