National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) welcomes audit into 17th World Youth Festival organisation
16 Dec 2010
The National Youth Development Agency would welcome any audit into the organisation and management of the 17th World Youth Festival currently underway at the Tshwane Events Centre in Pretoria.
The Chairman of NYDA Andile Lungisa says the organisation has noted the calls from different quarters for an audit to be conducted into how the funds allocated to the youth festival were spent.
"I want to remind the public that the NYDA is established in terms of the law and it is a public entity, as such it gets audited like any other public organisation anyway. As it is the NYDA had a clean audit for the 2009/10 financial year," he says.
The 17th World Festival of Youth and Students is the largest international youth festival hosted by the NYDA and the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY). The festival started on Monday, 13 December and will end next Tuesday.