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The Senate Committee on Public Accounts on Tuesday, blasted the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Nigeria Police Force and 12 other MDAs for their persistent failure to respond to queries raised against them in the 2019 report of the Auditor General of the Federation (AuGF).
The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Ahmed Wadada Aliyu (SDP – Nasarawa West), told reporters in Abuja that
since heads of the affected agencies refused to respond to queries raised against them in the 2019 audit report after several opportunities given them to do so, any agency that refuses to honour invitation to defend queries, the panel would sustain such queries and equally report them to the Senate in plenary.
He added that the attitude of the affected public agencies on persistent refusal to respond to queries against them in the audit report was both frustrating and detrimental to the aspirations and goals of the President Bola Tinubu-led federal government.
He said that apart from the NNPCL, FIRS and the Nigeria Police Force, other heads of agencies involved in the habit of not honouring committee’s invitation to respond to queries against them are the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation,
Nigeria Mining Cadastre Office, Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (former DPR) and Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade & Investment.
Others are the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Internal Revenue Service,
Nigeria Immigration Service, Federal Ministry of Women Affairs, Ministry of Defence, Nigeria Communications Satellite Limited, etc.
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