NASS frustrating audit reports implementation – AGF

The Auditor – General of the Federation (AGF), Mr.
Samuel Ukura, on Wednesday said the National
Assembly has not pass for implementation, 14 audit
reports forwarded to the parliament since 1999.

The audit reports exposed fraudulent practices in
federal ministries, department and agencies.
Ukura disclosed this at a retreat between his office
and the Public Accounts Committees of both
chambers of the National Assembly held in Abuja.

The AGF noted that the reports were usually
diligently produced only for them to be abandoned
by the parliament whose duty it is to pass the audit
reports for implementation.
Ukura insisted that efforts of the President
Muhammadu Buhari government to fight corruption
would only succeed only if the National Assembly
treats with passion, audit reports.

The reports, he explained, contains the official
financial transactions of various MDAs.
The AGF canvassed the immediate passage of the
Audit Bill which seeks to replace first audit law
made in 1958.
He said there was no doubt that the 1958 law had
become obsolete and ought to be replaced.