The Control and Investigation Board (CIB) has discovered SR56 million in financial violations at the Jeddah Mayoralty, which used the budget's Special Provision for employee bonuses, loans and salaries. The CIB report, which noted that employees did not make loan payments, said the mayoralty did not commit to directives to suspend using the Special Provision for loans and salaries and paid SR30 million to 152 employees. The largest loan granted to an employee was SR55,000 according to the report. Violations include using SR26 million to pay wages to 341 contract employees. Some of those employees' monthly salaries total SR58,000, it said. The report showed the mayoralty also used the Special Provision, which was burned with costs of fighting dengue fever, to pay monthly bonuses to a number of employees working on cleaning projects and to employees in several offices. The CIB also criticized the fact that a number of employees received overtime pay that was not based on their salaries and additional working hours. Apart from issuing the report, the CIB said it cannot send investigators to probe some cases because its budget lacks allocations for travel and cars. General budget shortfalls, particularly in the allocation for secondment, hinders implementation of programs for cities and villages, government bodies related to Haj and Umrah and Saudi embassies, it said. The CIB said it also suffers insufficiencies in women's jobs and financial and administrative positions, besides lack of a budget provision for contracts with computer-services providers to compensate for the shortage of technicians in its computer department.
