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Reps Summon 63 Agencies For Spending N2tn Without Buhari’s Approval

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The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has summoned a total of 63 institutions over N2 trillion illegal spending.

The committee stated that the institutions had implemented budgets which were not presented to President Muhammadu Buhari and passed by the National Assembly.

The chairman of the committee, Oluwole Oke, also wrote a letter to the Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Ben Akabueze, to demand evidence of appropriation by the National Assembly.

The President is expected to transmit budgetary proposals of MDAs to the National Assembly, while the clerk transmits passed budgets to the Presidency for implementation.

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However, Buhari, during a joint session of the National Assembly on October 7, 2022, berated the committee of the parliament who were getting approval for Government-Owned Enterprises without his consent.

The President had said, “Distinguished Senators, Honourable Members, you may recall that we earlier integrated the budget of Government-Owned Enterprises into the FGN’s 2019 budget submission. This has helped to enhance the comprehensiveness and transparency of the FGN budget. It has, however, come to my attention that Government-Owned Enterprises liaise directly with relevant NASS committees to have their budget passed and issued to them directly.

“I would like to implore the leadership of the National Assembly to ensure that the budget I lay here today, which includes those of the GOEs, be returned to the Presidency when passed. The current practice where some committees of the National Assembly purport to pass budgets for GOEs, which are at variance with the budgets sanctioned by me, and communicate such directly to the MDAs, is against the rules and needs to stop.”

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The committee, in the letter dated November 8, 2022, with Reference Number: HR/PAC/SCO5/9NASS/QUE.60/97, which was received at the Budget Office of the Federation on November 10, 2022, noted that the query was based on the alarm raised by the President.