The House of Representatives’
Committee on Public Accounts, on Monday declared that reckless use of
government resources was going on under the administration of President
Muhammadu Buhari.
Chairman of the PAC, Kingsley
Chinda, alongside members of the committee, said this while addressing
journalists in Abuja on Monday
Chinda said, “What we have
observed is that not much has changed from the reckless system that we have
operated in Nigeria. Not much has changed. Public spending is still not very
responsible and so, we need to begin to change.
“One typical example is the
Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation from where we get our raw
materials. The good thing that will happen to the fight against corruption is
assent to the Audit Commission Bill. We pray that the assent is not refused as
usual.
“If we had gone the way you are
looking at the Service Wide Vote, I am not sure that we would have achieved
what we have achieved today. So, there are areas that deliberately, we refused
to go the old way to enable us to achieve what we have achieved.
“We met a backlog of
Auditor-General’s reports on MDAs hanging. Even when we meet our colleagues
from other climes, it is a low-point for this country; it is a low-point for
our drive against corruption. And so, we said we must begin to erode that. If
that is our only achievement, so be it.
“A total of 552 MDAs were queried
by the Office of the Auditor-General, covering the period of 2010 to 2014. Of
that number, the committee was able to consider 512 of those queries. In the
course of that consideration, the committee was also able to, in 2010, recover
or map out recovery sum of N1,967,146,030.72.
“And then, we also referred to
the relevant authorities; that is, the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission
and the Nigeria Police, a total sum of N72,567,233,846.49 and $1,819,361 for
recovery”.
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Wetin concern Buhari for 2010 to 2014 or what are they saying here...
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