Breaking: We’ll Name, Shame MDAs Who Fail To Render Audited Accounts– Reps Panel

By Olafemi Akintunde

The House of Reps committee on Public Accounts has vowed to name and shame every Ministry, Department and Agency of government which did not render its audited accounts and also failed to honour invitations to its public hearing on alleged deliberate and reckless refusal by some non Treasury Funded MDAs to Office of the Auditor General of the Federation.

The chairman of the committee Rep. Oluwole Oke (PDP, Osun), stated this while delivering a keynote address at the public hearing into alleged deliberate and reckless refusal by non Treasury Funded MDAs to render audited accounts to the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation

While expressing displeasure over the failure of some accounting officers of some of the invited MDAs to be at the hearing lamented the MDAs stayed off despite the fact tha adequate notice in newspaper advertorials and invitation letters.

He said the refusal of the agencies to render their audited accounts not only violated the constitution but a deliberate efforts to sabotage governance in the country..

He that the refusal by some partially funded and revenue generating agencies of the federal government was a flagrant violation of the constitution.
Oke, who described the statistics of violations as alarming noted that the development indicated an outright disregard for the constitution which was the grand norm of the country