Senate calls on President Tinubu to immediately appoint AuGF

The Senate has written to President Bola Tinubu to immediately appoint an Auditor General for the Federation (AuGF) in line with Section 86 of the 1999 constitution.

According to Thisday, the upper chamber maintained that the absence of an auditor-general for the federation for almost 10 months had opened the government to potential mismanagement, transparency and lack of accountability.

This was disclosed in a communique that Senator Aliyu Wadada, the Senate Committee on Public Account chairman, signed.

The legislature expressed the absence of a substantive auditor-general for the office of the auditor-general for the federation in the last 10 months, adding that it was the apex auditing institution in Nigeria.

The communique reads in part: ”The absence of a substantive AuGF will affect strict adherence to accounting standards, and the annual reports of the auditor-general on the accounts of the Federation of Nigeria Agencies and Ministries, Agencies, Departments (MDAs) cannot be efficiently transmitted.

Wadada further maintained that the absence of the auditor-general has resulted in a lack of checks and balances, which was an integral part of the committee of the national assemblies for public account.