Question NW3390 to the Minister of Home Affairs
07 November 2023 - NW3390
van der Merwe, Ms LL to ask the Minister of Home Affairs
Whether the Border Management Authority (BMA) administrative personnel will undergo lifestyle audits, in light of the announcement by the Commissioner of the BMA, Dr Mike Masiapato, that regular lifestyle audits will be conducted on the BMA guards to curb corruption, and in view of the fact that the BMA staff complement is constituted of approximately 221 armed law enforcement officers out of the total of 2 100; if not, why not; if so, how often?
Reply:
The Border Management Authority has as part of its strategic enterprise risk management process, identified seven (07) strategic enterprise/organisational risks of which ‘Fraud and Corruption’ is one. As a mitigation strategy to curb this risk, and given the lack of capacity within the BMA, the Authority has already commenced the process towards appointment of various service providers to “conduct the lifestyle audit of its employees” starting with critical areas which may be susceptible to fraud and corruption such as employees at all Ports of Entry, deployed at the borderline, SCM and HR units. The BMA is guided by the risk assessment and no employee of the BMA is immune to the lifestyle audit.
The request for issuance of the Request for Proposal or Expression of Interest has already been submitted to the BMA’s Supply Chain Management Unit to source the service providers with vast experience in conducting the exercise of this nature.
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