Ichihara City Council Inappropriate Government Activity Expenses for Mobile Phone Shopping | NHK Chiba Prefecture News

In Ichihara City, Chiba Prefecture, a member of the city council who has experience as a chairman inappropriately paid government activity expenses for shopping using a mobile phone payment service I found out it was full. Naoki Saito, a member of the Ichihara City Council, was responsible for inappropriately allocating government activity expenses for shopping using mobile phone payment services. From January 2019 to February 2019, Representative Saito spent one-fourth of his mobile phone bill as government activity expenses, but the average monthly mobile phone bill last year was about 70,000 yen. bottom. When Ichihara City published a report on the income and expenditure of this government activity expense on its website, citizens pointed out that Mr. Saito's mobile phone bill was outstandingly high, so the city council and the council secretariat asked him to submit a detailed statement. and so on. In response, Saito said, ``I carelessly recorded the amount used for mobile phone payment services.'' It means that According to the parliamentary secretariat, Saito was a one-person parliamentary faction, and the accounting process was done by himself. Ichihara City Council Chairman Okaizumi commented, "It is very disappointing and disappointing. We will reinforce the appropriate execution of government activity expenses by all parliamentary groups and strive to prevent recurrence."