Only shekaw and the head of bandits can conduct such audit and then make recommendations.



Sorry.

Reasons why corruption still strives in the country... When big agencies can't be audited, because of one old constitution that should have been ammended.

So what is he auditin Useless legislators that does not know their work asking a useless question when they know that the stupid Constitution they imposed on Nigerian did not give auditor general such powers.

Kaduna1stson:
Only shekaw and the head of bandits can conduct such audit and then make recommendations.



Sorry.

you must be having a banana on one hand while posting this.

In essence, they show us only what they have agreed amongst themselves to show us.... we Nigerians are fools really... we are beyond redemption.

Our constitution is very faulty.
These agencies which can’t be audited are the agencies having not less than 95% of our revenue and economic resources. These are agencies where corrupt officers are taking out the largest chunk of our resources

Tolexander:
you must be having a banana on one hand while posting this.

That's why the important agencies are better in the hands of those the police and army are afraid of.

Not entirely true. The Auditor General still has the powers to carry out periodic checks of the accounts of these corporations and review their audited accounts.

Since the constitution did not clearly define what a periodic check is, we simply carry out compliance audit.

seunmsg:
Not entirely true. The Auditor General still has the powers to carry out periodic checks of the accounts of these corporations and review their audited accounts.

He said they have no power to compel them if the agencies decline the request from the Auditor General’s office

Tolexander:
He said they have no power to compel them if the agencies decline the request from the Auditor General’s office

Even if ministries that are constitutionally to be audited by the Auditor General declines him access to accounting records, he can’t compel them in any way. All he can do is put it in his report and send to National Assembly.

So, it doesn’t matter if it’s a ministry or statutory corporation. It is a general problem that FG must tackle by immediately repealing the Audit Ordinance act of 1956 and passing the Federal Audit bill 2021 into law.

No wonder those agencies of government are unimaginable cesspool of unending corruption.Of course the NASS will never legislate to subject them to scrutiny because they are also getting their own cuts.These are some of the things that should not in the exclusive list of the executive because they simply fuel corruption.

Racoon:
No wonder those agencies of government are unimaginable cesspool of unending corruption. Of course the NASS will never legislate to subject to scrutiny because they are also getting their own cuts.

David Mark And Dimeji Bankole Got $30m Monthly From NNPC - Wikileaks

Former Senate President David Mark and former Speaker of the House of Representatives Dimeji Bankole were monthly receiving $30 million each from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) during the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua’s administration, a leaked confidential US diplomatic cable published by Wikileaks said.


The cable quoted Nigerian former Ambassador to the United Nations Maitama Sule as saying that Yar’Adua turned down approximately $60 million which had been offered to him by the NNPC as the President’s personal “share” of the nation’s monthly oil.


Sule, according to the cable, alleged that the NNPC, right from Obasanjo’s administration, allocated USD 1.00 per barrel of oil sold as a type of personal payment or “kickback” to the President.

“While Yar’Adua ordered his “share” to be deposited into the nation’s treasury, First Lady Tura’i Yar’adua pocketed her husband’s reported share, while Senate President David Mark and House Speaker Dimeji Bankole pocketed USD 0.50/barrel (e.g., $30 million)” the cable quoted Sule as revealing.

“In light of the possibility that Obasanjo could have stolen billions of dollars under this arrangement, Sule told PolOff that Yar’Adua told him that he may use this information, perhaps one day in the near future, to indict Obasanjo for corruption.

“The problem however, according to Sule, rested in the fact that Yar’Adua recognized that if he were to pursue Obasanjo, he may unwittingly subject his wife and close advisers to greater scrutiny, and risk his own political survival”, the cable added. When contacted by Daily Trust to comment on the allegation that he told the American intelligence cable in 2008 that former President Obasanjo had one dollar for every barrel of crude oil produced in Nigeria as kickback, Sule said he “could not remember having said so”.

He said he did not say so “since I know nothing about oil industry because I did not work there and have no business whatsoever with Nigeria’s oil sector”.

Sule, who now holds the traditional title of Danmasanin Kano, added that it is only those in government that could know government secret and how things are being run there.

Reacting to a leaked confidential US diplomatic cable published by Wikileaks, the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, Dr Levi Ajuonuma told Daily Trust on phone that the allegation was nonsense and ridiculous.

“No Senate President or Speaker has ever received anything as kickback from the Corporation. It is just concocted and baseless”, he added.

Senate President David Mark yesterday denied reports credited to the Wikileaks that he and some other top government officials received the sum of $30m monthly as kickback from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) in 2007.

In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Kola Ologbondiyan, Mark said he could not believe that Alhaji Maitama Sule, an elder statesman, would have made the statements ascribed to him by the United States of America (USA) former Ambassador, Robin Sanders, as contained in the Wikileaks.

He described the allegation as “malicious, spurious, wicked and mere fabrication of a mind that is fertile in mischief.

“I have no knowledge of any kickback or proceed from the NNPC neither did I, at any time, in concert with the late President Umaru Musa YarAdua; his wife, Turai and the former House of Representatives Speaker, Hon. Dimeji Sabur Bankole, engaged in corrupt practices or receive kickback of $30 million.”


https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08ABUJA1018_a.html

Ilekokonit:
David Mark And Dimeji Bankole Got $30m Monthly From NNPC - Wikileaks
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08ABUJA1018_a.html

My brother ehen! They will never do the right thing nor apply the China's antidote against corruption-outright execution or the Japanese harakiri self-killing/ death

Senate should give the Auditor General that Power and require him to report the results of such audits back to the Senate and Nigerians.

The only thing still keeping this country is corruption.

Is Karma real? Why is it hesitating to catch up with these bunch of thieves we have as leaders?

No worries, one day bushmeat will catch the hunter.

Then Who Has the Powers?

It means therefore, that the "General" affixed to "Auditor" is useless. Since your auditing is not "General".

Nigeria is just a "Fuji House of Commotion".

If Shakespeare were alive, he'd write volumes of literary work from Nigeria's theatricals.

And that's where billions of Naira are channelled to. What a country

Ilekokonit:

https://punchng.com/we-lack-power-to-audit-nnpc-cbn-others-augf/

spit

Independence 1st October 1960?
A joke!
The colonial master still rules!

seunmsg:
Even if ministries that are constitutional to be audited by the Auditor General declines him access to accounting records, he can’t compel them in any way. All he can do is put it in his report and send to National Assembly.

So, it doesn’t matter if it’s a ministry or statutory corporation. It is a general problem that FG must tackle by immediately repealing the Audit Ordinance act of 1956 and passing the Federal Audit bill 2021 into law.

What is the feedback from your senator and representative after lobbying them for this Audit Bill

Lol...

shakushaku Constitution.

He only has powers to audit my mothers pot of soup.

Useless people.

gurunlocker:
Reasons why corruption still strives in the country... When big agencies can't be audited, because of one old constitution that should have been ammended.

But they don't even audit the ones which they have the constitutional powers to audit! Why does anyone think those auditors are multi- millionaires and billionaires?

Who watches the activities of the CBN then?
In every country that works, there must be an institution watching over the next institution to avoid the abuse of power.

Perhaps that's why nobody is worried that the NNPC keeps incurring billions in losses year in, year out. I still wonder the usefulness of Buhari as the petroleum minister anyways.

Racoon:
My brother ehen! They will never do the right thing nor apply the China's antidote against corruption-outright execution or the Japanese hakira self-killing/ death

Harakiri is the right spelling.

DaddyGoo:
Harakiri is the right spelling.

Thanks so much sir.