Vanguard
By Levinus Nwabughiogu – Abuja
House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Accounts was miffed, yesterday, by how the Police Service Commission, PSC, spent alleged extra-budgetary spending and unaccounted funds to the tune of N1,066,398,223.The committee also discovered that some funds were paid into private accounts of some PSC officials.
The discovery followed queries issued by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation to the PSC covering 2013, 2015, 2018 and 2019 on the expenditure of the commission.
Specifically, the query bothered on the N17,824,680 received from the Service Wide Vote in 2013; N1,853,456 received in 2015; N336,696,142.65 in 2018, N400,000,000 in 2019, N17,733,944 in also 2019 and another N292,290,001.51 in 2019.
In an investigative session with the Permanent Secretary of PSC, Williams Alo; and Director of Finance and Account, Brighten Saagwe, the committee chaired by Wole Oke grilled the officials on the queries.
