MDAs frustrate investigations into AGF queries —Senate

The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has blamed Ministries, Departments and Agencies for delayed and slow pace of investigations into queries raised by the Auditor General of the Federation in the last one year.

It noted that the committee’s work was greatly hampered by the reluctance of the agencies to either appear before it or present relevant documents needed to get the facts of issues raised in the queries.

The committee’s position is contained in the annual report of the Senate on the activities of its committees between June 2009 and 2010.

According to the PAC, at the inception of the third session of the Sixth Senate, the committee set for itself the target of clearing all the queries raised against all MDAs by the Auditor General for the Federation in his report on the accounts of the federation for 2006 and 2007.

“This resolve was with a view to ensuring that all AGF’s audit queries, which had been in arrears were attended to before the end of the sixth Senate,” the report said.