The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Lagos State House of Assembly has commenced the probing of Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the government
Hon. Saka Solaja, chairman of the committee disclosed this on Wednesday when he received the first set of government officials summoned to respond to queries raised in the report.
While describing PAC as a statutory establishment of Sections 125 and 129 of the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, he said that the committee serves as an important instrument of checks, probity and accountability in Legislative institutions at both the Federal and the State levels.
Consequently, Section 125 and Section 129 of the 1999 Constitution as empower the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Assembly to ‘summon any person in Nigeria to give evidence at any place or produce any document or other things in his possession or under his control and examine him as witness and require him to produce any document or other things in his possession or under his control’.
“Hence, in consonance with the need for improved efficiency and best practices in the pursuit of its statutory objectives, the Public Accounts Committee of the Lagos State House of Assembly is poised to commence deliberations and considerations of the audited report of the State Auditor-General on the accounts of the Lagos State Government for the year ended 2021 haven been committed to the committee for proper deliberations,” he said.
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