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Reps summon 63 agencies for spending N2tn illegally

The Committee on Public Accounts of the House of Representatives has summoned 63 Federal Government agencies for implementing budgets not proposed by the President and approved by the National Assembly, resulting in illicit spending of approximately N2 trillion.Information Guide Nigeria

Oluwole Oke, chairman of the committee, had also sent a letter to Ben Akabueze, director-general of the Budget Office of the Federation, demanding proof of appropriation by the National Assembly.


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The President is expected to present MDA budget suggestions to the National Assembly, while the clerk transmits approved budgets to the President for implementation.

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Nonetheless, while presenting the 2023 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly on October 7, 2022, Buhari criticized parliamentary committees for circumventing him and approving budgets for Government-Owned Enterprises without his consent.

The President had said, “Distinguished Senators, Honourable Members, you may recall that we earlier integrated the budget of Government-Owned Enterprises into the FGN’s 2019 budget submission. This has helped to enhance the comprehensiveness and transparency of the FGN budget. It has, however, come to my attention that Government-Owned Enterprises liaise directly with relevant NASS committees to have their budget passed and issued to them directly.

“I would like to implore the leadership of the National Assembly to ensure that the budget I lay here today, which includes those of the GOEs, be returned to the Presidency when passed.  The current practice where some committees of the National Assembly purport to pass budgets for GOEs, which are at variance with the budgets sanctioned by me, and communicate such directly to the MDAs, is against the rules and needs to stop.”

In a letter dated November 8, 2022 and bearing the reference number HR/PAC/SCO5/9NASS/QUE.60/97, which was received at the Budget Office of the Federation on November 10, 2022, the committee indicated that the question was prompted by the President’s alarm.JAMB Result

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