Auditor General suggests the way forward

bill of health. “You want to cause trouble between me and the National Assembly? But the National Assembly investigated this same contract before the election and gave us clean bill of health. What are they investigating again?” he asked.

Explaining the security situation on the waterways, Amaechi said the facilities were arriving and the Israelis will soon launch security on Nigerian waterways. “That security contract involves the Army, Police, Air Force, SSS and all relevant security agencies and they will be on the water. It won’t be like before when it was just the Navy,” he explained.

In his latest report, the Auditor General of the Federation, Mr Anthony Ayeni, made recommendations on how to tame infractions by MDAs.

A recommendation directed to the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, said she “should ensure that all MDAs are fully on the GIFMIS platform and that no payment is made without passing through the platform. The use of manual payment vouchers should be abolished.

“I further recommend that appropriate sanctions are applied to all involved in instances of payments being made without the expected supporting documents and/ or approvals,” Ayeni said.

He also called for a proper strategy to improve the oversight of revenue generating agencies.

“Timely reconciliation of all revenues accruing to the Consolidated Revenue Fund should be done immediately,” he added.