Kigali: Lawmakers in the Chamber of Deputies have given government six months to come up with a plan on how it will recover billions of francs that have either been embezzled or misused, RNA reports.

The resolution was reached Wednesday following the release on Tuesday of the much-awaited Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report. The team headed by outspoken lawmaker Juvenal Nkusi uncovered large amounts of money that did not go to programs targeted during the period 2009-10.

For example, some 9.8billion was lost through fraudulent practices in the tendering process for government contracts. PAC also told the House that government had won many cases aimed at recovering the lost money but the problem was that there was nobody collecting the refunded money.

In a particular case cite by PAC, court bailiffs who were supposed to collect the money instead used it up because nobody from government was available to keep the money. Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama told the committee, as quoted the by the report, that it impossible to follow on the recovery process as there was no body setup for that purpose.

However, the in the heated debate that followed the release of the report, lawmakers one after another, complained that the PAC report had not come up with names of individuals. This report is no different from the ones we have received all these years, said one of them.

The debate was adjourned to Wednesday. At the end of the session, lawmakers resolved that government be given 6 months to work out a plan to recover the taxpayers’ monies. PAC was also asked to go back to the drawing board and identify the individual culprits.

Meanwhile, among a set of more than 50 recommendations, PAC wants the assets and finances of the Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB), formerly caisse social du Rwanda, to be audited. PAC cited cases of buildings in Kigali and western province that did not meet value for money.

PAC was established in April last year to oversee how every franc is spent by the government, like it happens in the other EAC partner states. In Uganda for example, PAC has caused the disgraced fall of senior politicians.