Jacques Assahoré, Director General of the Treasury and Public Accounting is not happy that rightly or wrongly we accuse the management he has been running for nearly three years, especially when it comes to payment.

According to him, Ivorians make a lot of confusion, because for an expense to be paid, the budget must first provide for the credits.

“We are wrongly accused, we Treasury, we do not pay. We can't pay, what we can't pay.

The budget provides the appropriations. When it is voted with credits, what is called commitment is made.

When the expense is incurred, then it is authorized. We take out what we call a money order, which we put on a slip that we transfer to the public treasury. That's the procedure. Now when the mandate is with the Public Treasury, we look at when it's good and we take charge. It is at this moment, we treasure, our responsibility is engaged, ”he explained.

According to him, for most liabilities, expenditures are made when there is no credit to support them.

“How do you want the Treasury to pay. People who go to sit in the street to strike are 90% in this case,” said Jacques Assahoré, DG of the Treasury and public accounting.

“They went to a credit administrator to make an expense. As they are looking for the market, they rush to deliver the products. It's after they realize that the loan officer had no loan to pay for the expense,” he said.

The DG indicated that these people come to charge the Treasury and maintain that they have worked without being paid and when they do not win their case they sit in the street to claim.

“The Treasury cannot pay these bills,” Mr. Assahoré insisted.

He also challenges all those who have proof that a payment mandate has been in the Treasury at the PGT for 2 years, 3 years which has not been followed up and believes that the debate on liabilities must be done on the basis of proof, because the Treasury does not know of any liabilities.

“The Budget has set up a structure called CDERMA dedicated to suppliers. It allows them to verify the benefits. Unfortunately, the suppliers do not go there. As soon as they are called, he runs in search of markets, after which they say that the Treasury does not pay them. A supplier who has not executed his expenditure according to the rules of the art who asks that we pay. No we will not,” said Jacques Assahoré.

The DG of Treasury and Public Accounting made his revelations during the celebration of the Certification of the management which took place in Abidjan on Wednesday.

"Taking the step with the liabilities is another opportunity to clearly differentiate between the instances of payment which are therefore the appropriate commitments which are the responsibility of the public accountant which is the responsibility of the Public Treasury and the liabilities which are public quasi-expenditures which are expenditure actions which have not necessarily resulted in the procedures,” explained the Paymaster General of the Treasury (PGT).

The latter revealed that Côte d'Ivoire is a democratic country which has taken charge of dealing with this type of expense, because it is not always that certain countries take charge of the expenses which have been made in uncontrolled procedures.

According to him, in 2016, the Government adopted the conclusions of the audit to clear approximately 291 billion FCFA of liabilities.

“These liabilities were cleared in cash this year for an amount of 15 billion FCFA, the difference is being securitized so in principle the debate on liabilities should no longer exist, for the simple reason that what is validated is totally cleared or in the process of being cleared thanks to the securitization which will take place in a few days," he concluded.