Reps summon Auditor Normal over subsidy cost claims

The Home of Representatives has summoned the Auditor-Normal of the Federation (AGF) to look earlier than it on August 30, for rationalization on gas subsidy funds between 2013 and 2022.

The lawmakers need the auditor-general to offer documentary proof on the audit carried out on the monies spent on gas subsidy by the Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd.

Ibrahim Aliyu, the chairman of the particular advert hoc committee investigating the gas subsidy, issued the discover in Abuja on Thursday.

Mr Aliyu made this identified in the course of the scrutiny of paperwork submitted by the consultant of the Accountant-Normal of the Federation (AGoF), Okolieaboh Sylvia.

The AGoF was represented by the Director, Federation Accounts, Mohammed Saleh.

The lawmakers additionally directed the workplace of the AGoF to offer related monetary transactions on the gas subsidy for the interval below assessment.

In its bid to make sure honest listening to as enshrined within the regulation, the committee mentioned it was anticipating the AGoF to look earlier than it on September 8 with related paperwork.

The committee tasked the AGoF on the necessity to have an impartial monitoring mechanism to confirm the veracity of the transactions.

The committee additionally expressed the necessity for the workplace of the AGoF to make sure due diligence by verifying the transaction paperwork submitted by all authorities companies in step with its features as spelt out within the Act.

Mark Gbillah (PDP-Benue) after totally scrutinising the paperwork, recognized some discrepancies within the quantity computed within the NNPC paperwork. 

(NAN)