Dozens of Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government misused N3.8 trillion they received from the Service Wide Votes (SWV) in four years, according to a…

Dozens of Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government misused N3.8 trillion they received from the Service Wide Votes (SWV) in four years, according to a Senate report.

Service Wide Votes is the government’s contingency fund in the annual budget.

The Senate Public Accounts Committee had probed the disbursement of N5 trillion from the SWV to more than 200 government agencies between 2017 and 2021, when ex-President Muhammadu Buhari was in power.

The committee, chaired by Senator Matthew Urhoghide, invited 207 government agencies for the investigation, but only 119 agencies appeared.

The panel presented its report to the Senate during Wednesday’s plenary and its recommendations were adopted.

Urhoghide, while presenting the report, said his committee after investigation discovered that many agencies collected fund from SWV without recourse to the National Assembly committees that is mandated by law to oversight the agencies.

He said some of the MDAs did not make formal requests for the money that was sent to them by the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation.

He said where the approval of Mr. President was sought and obtained, some MDAs used the resources for unrelated expenditure purpose.

The senator said some MDAs collected the fund for projects that were already budgeted for in the Appropriation Acts over the years.

He said, “Hundreds of Billions of Naira were claimed to have been used for the purposes of paying salary shortfalls whereas such agencies had already collected appropriation for personnel emolument and were on the IPPIS platform.

“In some instances, huge sums Of money were thrown at agencies which they didn’t apply for/or are not in the know of where the money came from and for what purpose.

“The IPPIS intervention towards meeting insufficiencies or shortfalls in Personnel Costs has been bastardized and running into huge sums of money needing legislative scrutiny.

“Most of the MDAs involved in the period under review deliberately avoided the Committee’s invitation for appearance and refused to make submissions, perhaps for lack of satisfactory explanations on the utilization of the funds released to them.”

The senate, after adopting the committee’s recommendations, urged the Executive to use supplementary budget approach to meet emergencies instead of Service Wide Vote, which it said amounts to affront/erosion of the approval powers of the National Assembly.

The committee also recommended that the Auditor-General for the Federation should be given full access by the Accountant General and other MDAs to audit Service Wide Vote expenditures annually and report to the National Assembly.

It also called for in-depth investigation into the operations of IPPIS to stern the rising cases of irregularities in the system.

Some of the affected agencies are: Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, Ministries of Interior, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Transportation, Health, Works and Housing, Information and Culture, Mines and Steal Development, Police Affairs, Defence, Youths and Sports, Petroleum and Aviation.

Others are: State House, Budget Office, Presidential Fleet, Nigerian Army, Navy, Airforce, NAFDAC, Civil Defence, Presidential Amnesty Programme, FERMA, NEMA, National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), Debt Management Office, INEC, North East Development Commission (NEDC), Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA), National Examination Council (NECO), among others.

https://dailytrust.com/how-mdas-squandered-n3-8trn-under-buhari-report/

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Nlfpmod

Make una kukuma lil this country make we rest..wetin!

Of course it is now that the horrendous putrifying corruption perpetuated in the last 8 years of the morbidly corrupt Buhari government will be properly unearthed. The world surely shudder in horror with all the discovery therein.

He wasn't aware and always in shock...

What

Buhari was virtually non existent

Mr integrity

Tinubu is a man of fire

Woootr

Buhari is the worst president in the world.

He and his group of misfits almost ran Nigeria aground.

We never hear anything yet, corruption fighter

Wahala

Bunch of thieves

Hmmm

Vote wisely Una no hear......when Buhari entered many withdrew their children from private schools and sent them to public schools. Many people lost their jobs because of your stupidity in voting for someone who has been proven to be a failure. Now you get another chance but you still voted for someone with everything about him questionable and you want magic to happen. Now fuel prices has gone way up and soon prices of commodities will sky rocket. Guess what salaries remain the same, more people will withdraw their wards from private schools and send them to public ones, many will lose their jobs as well. If you want to Japa as a solution, the japaing is now very difficult. No one will be spared except you're one of the elites. It go touch everybody.


On this mandate wey Una wan stand , na him most of Una go use get sense by force

Oh shit it's not about Peter Obi..

leaves thread

Last government was the most corrupt government in the history of nigeria

Chaiiii 😥😥😥

Buhari was a saint?

Buhari's governance was not only clueless but also corrupt!

No wonder people from Daura were begging for forgiveness for Buhari.

Buhari is still better than GEJ

In the late 90s, Baba Fryo criticized government because fuel sold for 20 naira


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XCcWn4wpK4

buhari will soon be a saint soon

If it were a working country, as Buhari was vacating the Villa, he was supposed to be transported to jail directly....

When we thought that no government will surpass Jonathan's government in corruption, Buhari came and proved us wrong.

I keep sounding it loud for whoever cares to hear that when Buhari leaves office and the revelations start unraveling, Jonathan's government will be a child's play to Buhari.

There was a monumental corruption in Buhari's government. Buhari was never in charge and never cared. He's the most weakling President Nigeria has ever had.


If only his kinsmen knew the rot he left after 8 years, they couldn't have the effrontery to ask Nigerians to forgive him.


Have your seat with your popcorn, more revelations are coming.


I'M OUTTA HERE...

Na una go fit talk am out

Every bad citizen of Nigeria have family then they came from 😂✍️ kindly understand that great nation does not belong to bad citizen who keep on deceived their own inner core

9 years ago Buhari was fighting to become Nigeria president we tot he's coming to make thing better.........

And Bubu says "I am shocked and I quanzem dis. I ashua you, I wasn't awyar.".

And the perpetrators would go scot-free.