[Tolo News] Highlighting the Afghan government's money-management weakness, the U.S. Defense Department officials have been reported by Washington Examiner as saying that the Afghan government agencies may have wasted billions of dollars in direct U.S. aid.The source revealed that the officials with the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) told the Pentagon's Inspector General that they felt "pressure to maintain hard-fought gains" in the development of Afghan cops and as a result, were willing to "overlook" troubled contracts made possible by U.S. and coalition funds.
"The Pentagon watchdog found that Afghan agencies enforced no formal spending requirements to protect the flood of funding the U.S. and other nations poured into the country to support the developing national security forces," it added.
The inspector general, according to Washington Examiner, has warned that Afghanistan would not be able to continue functioning without uninterrupted support of NATO
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contributions if it didn't address the contracting problems.
"Until it mitigates these challenges, [the government of Afghanistan] will continue to depend on coalition-provided capabilities," the report said. "Future direct assistance funds are vulnerable to fraud and abuse."