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Senate Advocates For Adequate Auditing System To Curb Corruption
The Senate has called for adequate auditing system across all government agencies to help reduced corruption.
The Chairman Senate Committee on Public Accounts, Sen. Matthew Uroghide, noted that a proper auditing system would help curd corrupt practices in government establishments.
He revealed this at the budget defence by the Office of the Auditor-General in Abuja on Wednesday.
Uroghide noted that the office of the auditor general was the first in line in fighting corruption.
He said “Fighting corruption the first line is the duty of the office of the auditor general of the federation.”
The committee chairman lamented that the office of the auditor general has not been discharging its duty to the fullest because of lack appropriate legal support. Adding that, the Senate had transmitted a Federal Audit Bill to President Buhari to sign in to law but has yet to assent the bill.
He said “No doubt that if we are able to put out all these systems in place correctly and we are able to check the account properly of course whatever is allocated to all the MDAs and we are able to audit them, the issue of corruption would reduce tremendously in our country.
“But the audit system we are running right now is such that our MDAs and indeed the account of the federation is not subjected to any precaution in terms of checking corruption rather our resources are ploughed into agencies that are fighting corruption.
“There are things that we have thought of in the senate when we passed the Federal Audit Bill for the President to sign.
“Today the Federal Audit Bill has not seen the signature of the President and we expect that this 9th senate being one of our own legislative agenda, we are going to ensure that the audit bill is signed in to law”
The senate committee chairman also stressed that when the president assent the bill, it would strengthened the office the auditor general to curb corruption.
“When it is signed into law by the President, I believe part A of that Bill when it becomes an Act will strengthen the office of the auditor general of the federation.
“And then Part B which has to do with the establishment of the Federal Audit Commission where you are going to have the right personnel trained that will carry out auditing of the account of the federation.”
Meanwhile, the Vice Chairman of the committee Sen.Ibrahim Hadejia, advocated for automated solutions in carrying out auditing.
He said “if you do not digitise and find a way to automate our process, we will be wasting our time.
“l hope this budget will help you to start working on how to automate your audit system.”
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