The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has suspended the budget defence of the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation, OAGF, over alleged infractions and lack of preparedness.
The OAGF risks zero allocation for 2025 because the deadline for budget defence for Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, is Wednesday after which standing committees of the red chamber will present their reports to the appropriations committee. At a session on Tuesday, members of the committee said the Auditor-General, Shaakaa Chira, failed to provide satisfactory answers about the 2024 budget performance of his office.
Also, a member of the committee, Osita Isunazo, said the inability of Chira to provide detailed information about the 2024 budget performance makes it difficult to proceed. “The discrepancies in the documents and the inability to provide detailed explanations for 2024 spending make it impossible to proceed,” he said. Speaking, the Senator representing Delta central, Efe Dafinone said the OAGF made some irregular spending.
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