The Senate Public Accounts Committee also faulted the executive for withdrawing funds from Special Fund Accounts for purposes other than the objectives the funds were created, and without recourse to the National Assembly.
More revelations have emerged from the report of the Senate Public Accounts Committee on the audit of accounts of over 100 Ministries, Departments and Agencies .An audit of the ministry’s account for 2015 shows that it carried out many uncompleted projects in the same year, amounting to over N390 million.
The audit, which was done by the Auditor-General of the Federation, also disclosed that a former Minister of Information forcefully collected a jeep which the ministry has failed to recover to date.The report also queried the ministry for non-deduction and non-remittance of taxes in many cases. Details of these discoveries are contained in the annual report of the Auditor-General of the Federation for 2015 submitted to the Senate by its Committee on Public Account in June.The ministry of information is part of the 114 Ministries, Departments and Agencies indicted and queried by the auditor-general for incessant violation of extant rules, some of which include non-retirement of personal advances within a financial year and grant of cash advances above approved limit.
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