The Accountant Common of the Federation, AGF, Oluwatoyin Madein, has clarified that the Minister of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, shouldn’t be alleged to make funds into a personal account.
AGF confirmed receiving the request from Edu for an N585 million cost however didn’t perform the cost.
It additionally clarified that the OAGF doesn’t make funds on behalf of MDAs for tasks and programmes applied by the MDAs.
In a press release by the Director of Press, Bawa Mokwa, on Saturday, the AGF was reacting to media studies regarding a request from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation for N585 million cost of grants to weak teams in some states of the federation.
The AGF defined, “Though her workplace obtained the mentioned request from the Ministry, it didn’t pay. The Ministry was, nevertheless, suggested on the suitable steps to make such funds consistent with the established cost process”, she mentioned.
Madein famous that allocations are launched to self-accounting MDAs consistent with the price range, and such MDAs are accountable for the implementation of their tasks and funds for such tasks.
The AGF famous that in such conditions, funds are often processed by the affected ministries as self-accounting entities and no bulk cost is meant to be made to a person’s account within the identify of the challenge accountant.
She added that such funds needs to be despatched to the beneficiaries by their verified financial institution accounts.
Madein reiterated her willpower to uphold the ideas of accountability and transparency within the administration of public funds.
She suggested MDAs to all the time be sure that the requisite steps are taken to hold out monetary transactions.
Earlier, the Arogidigba World Journal reported that Edu insisted that the N585.198 million cost into personal was for the weak group following due course of.
In the meantime, Arogidigba World Journal gathered that public sector monetary laws of 2009 prohibited the cost of public funds to the account of a personal particular person.
Part 713 of the legislation states, “Private cash shall in no circumstances be paid right into a authorities checking account, nor shall any public cash be paid into a personal checking account. An officer who pays public cash into a personal account is deemed to have executed so with fraudulent intention.”
For the final 24 hours, Edu has come beneath hearth by Nigerians over the approval of NN585 million to a personal account, which is in opposition to the monetary laws in public service.
Recall that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu barely 4 days in the past suspended the Nationwide Coordinator of the Nationwide Social Funding Programme Company, Halima Shehu, an company beneath Edu, over alleged monetary misappropriation.