The Department of Implementation and Rural Development (DIRD) says LLG Service Improvement Program (WSIP) funds must be acquitted through the District Development Authority.
Acting Secretary, Paul Sai’i, says all wards must acquit finds through the DDAs which will then be captured in the district’s reports.
The Government has extended the decentralizing of funds from the Provincial level to the District level, and began last year to allocate directly to the ward level.
Sai’i told Loop PNG that while the funds go directly to the Ward level, they must still be acquitted through the DDA’s and there should not be any deviation from the current process.
Meanwhile Sai’i has urged all Districts to provide acquittals for 2016 and for previous years which they have not provided.
On Wednesday, Minister Community Development and Member for Sohe, Delilah Gore, presented acquittals for the 2016 financial year.
She is the only MP to have acquitted all DSIP funds from 2013 to 2016.