Challenges in vetting processes delay security clearances

THE Presidency has identified failure by supply chain management officials to subject themselves to polygraph tests and submit financial statements to the State Security Agency (SSA) as a challenge when they are vetted in line with a decade-old Cabinet directive.

- MAYIBONGWE MAQHINA

Briefing the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) on the vetting of officials in the supply chain management per the 2014 Cabinet directive, Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation senior official Jonathan Timm said the SSA has reported some challenges that contributed to delays in the vetting of officials.

He said some of the prominent challenges were noncompliance by vetting subjects and failure to submit required documents, mostly financial statements.