The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, has rejected the N5.112 billion total budget for Office of the Auditor General of the Federation as contained in the 2023 Appropriation Bill currently being considered by the National Assembly.
His was as the committee on Wednesday, summoned the insisted of Finance, Dr. Zainab Ahmed, Acting Accountant General of the Federation, Sylva Okolieaboh and the Director General, Budget Office the Federation, Mr. Ben Nwabueze, giving the trio a seven-day ultimatum to appear and explain why the budget of such a strategic office should be so meagre.
Auditor General of the Federation, Andrew Onwudili had while briefing the Hon. Wole Oke-led committee disclosed that though the office proposed a total budget of N11.151 billion, what the budget office approved and put in the budget was N5.112 billion.
According to him, the office had proposed a personnel cost of N3.041 billion as against the N2.349 billion contained in the budget, a…
