The National Assembly management failed to account for a total
expenditure of over N9.4 billion in 2014, the latest audit report has
revealed.
The money included N9.39 billion for which no “documentary evidence”
was provided and a N47 million to be returned to government coffers out
of which only N360,000 was returned; giving a total of N9,440,844,572
(nine billion, four hundred and forty million, eight hundred and four
thousand, five hundred and seventy two Naira).
The audit report of government bodies (2009-2014) was submitted to
the Clerk to the National Assembly in March 2016 as statutorily
provided. The full contents were recently publicly disclosed by the
Office of the Auditor General of the Federation on its website.
The report indicted several government bodies of illegal and
profligate spending, and failing to remit over N3 trillion into
government’s treasury.
Apart from the National Assembly, other key bodies indicted include
the state oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Ministry
of Interior, the Presidency, Central Bank of Nigeria and some foreign
missions.
According to the report, between January and December, 2014 under the
leadership of David Mark as Senate President and Salisu Maikasuwa as
the Clerk, the Management Department of the National Assembly Commission
transferred N9,392,995,515.00 (Nine billion, three hundred and
ninety-two million, nine hundred and ninety-five thousand, five hundred
and fifteen naira) from the general services account to other accounts
in different banks.In another case, the report disclosed that the National Assembly
management remitted only N360,000, out of a N47 million balance of total
personnel vote release and actual expenditure for 2014.
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