The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts on Tuesday queried the Chief Executive Officers CEOs of fifteen government Ministries, Departments and agencies of government MDAs over what it described as extra-budgetary expenditure by these MDAs.
Chairman of the House Committee Hon.Oluwole Oke and other lawmakers grilled the Chief Executive Officers of these agencies at an investigative hearing on the audit query report of the Auditor-General of the Federation to the committee
He said the queries to the agencies was from the Auditor-General’s report on the financial statements issued by the office of the Accountant-General to the agencies pursuant to section 85 of the 1999 Constitution.
He further hinted that most of most of the agencies being queried by the Committee were summoned by it to shed light on the alleged extra-budgetary spending.
Some notable agencies that made appearances or send representation before the committee include the Surveyors Registration Council of Nigeria SURCON, Federal Civil Service Commission, FCSC, Ministry of Foreign Affairs MFA.
The Committee Chairman in a remark said that the agencies these agencies were involved in extra-budgetary expenditure running into millions and billions of Naira through their overhead budgets
He also said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a query of an extra-budgetary expenditure of over N4 million while the Federal Civil Service Commission have an extra-budgetary expenditure of over N5 million.
