Abuja (Core Reporters) The Senate committee on public account, has listed the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, Federal Inland Revenue Services, FIRS, Nigerian Police Force, NPF, Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, among MDAs which have refused to appear before the public account committee.
Chairman of the committee, Senator Ahmed Wadada Aliyu (Nasarawa West), expressed dismay over the delay tactics and refusal of some MDAs to appear before the committee and tender account for the year ended 2019.
Aliyu, on Tuesday at a press briefing in Abuja, decried some agencies have willfully failed to honour invitations to defend their written responses to the audit queries as submitted to the Committee Secretariat.
According to Aliyu, the Committee has over time, extended invitations to those agencies providing them ample opportunities to defend their queries but for reasons best known to them, these agencies have chosen to dIsregard invitations.
He said, “the desire of the Public Accounts Committee to timely discharge its constitutional and legislative function is being delayed by the evasive and negative actions of some CEOs or accounting officers of the concerned MDAs.
