Nigerian Senate Directs Ministry Of Works Under Fashola To Refund N692million Mismanaged On Projects
The Senate Public Accounts Committee (SPAC), chaired by Senator Matthew Urhoghide, investigated the AuGF document and reported its conclusions to Senate management.
The Nigerian Senate has asked the Federal Ministry of Works below Babatunde Fashola, a primitive Lagos Dispute governor, to refund the N692million spent on some non-accomplished projects in 2018 by the ministry succor to the federation yarn.
The ministry claimed the funds had been frail to aquire vehicles, computer accessories, photocopying, and the manufacturing and airing of a special video documentary which weren’t bought, per the Federation’s Auditor Frequent’s 2018 document.
The Senate Public Accounts Committee (SPAC), chaired by Senator Matthew Urhoghide, investigated the AuGF document and reported its conclusions to Senate management.
The SPAC document became once mentioned in plenary, and the crimson chamber agreed with the Urhoghide-led panel’s solutions.
The committee found that a contract for N343 million became once given with out due course of for the acquisition of project monitoring vehicles.
It became once also established that the vehicles had no longer been supplied.
One other contract became once also issued for products and companies and deliver procurement of car spare parts, computer accessories, and photocopying machine parts, per the panel.
It extra acknowledged that one more contract for the originate of Nigerian roads and bridges for N139million didn’t follow the fitting course of.
Furthermore, N210million designated for documentation applications became once separated into N130 million and N80 million and positioned in a workers yarn in contravention of the Monetary Law.
The Committee sent a series of invitations to the Ministry of Works to refute the announce made by the Federation’s Auditor Frequent.
The invitations had been unnoticed by Ministry officers, leaving the Committee without a different with the exception of to defend up the AuGF’s home.
The inquire of read: “Audit seen that the sum of N343 million became once paid for the enjoy of 36 project monitoring vehicles with out following due course of.
“Additional examination published that the 36 vehicles weren’t got into the store as there became once no doc to reward such offer.”
“Audit seen that advances within the sum of N139 million had been granted on service and deliver enjoy of vehicles spare allotment, computer accessories, photocopying machine parts for designing of Nigerian roads and bridges.
“There became once no store document of these items to reward that they had been bought,” one more inquire of added.
The third inquire of persevered: “Audit seen that N210 million supposed for documentary became once spoil up into N130 million and N80 million paid right into a workers yarn contravening FR 713.
“Additional examination published that the sum of N130 million became once capturing developmental projects which incorporated other ministries love: Finance, Agriculture, Transport, Petroleum Resources, Mines and Metal and Exchange and funding.
“There became once no receipt or retirement particulars linked to the price vouchers to interpret the price.
“The recognition of the sum of N80 million became once made to the Director of Finance and Account which became once above his approval restrict. There became once no proof to reward who the producer of the documentary became once or whether or no longer they had been selected on a competitive foundation. There became once no proof to reward the work became once if truth be told accomplished.”
