The Accountant Normal of the Federation, AGF, Oluwatoyin Madein has distanced herself and her workplace from the unlawful switch of N585.2 million to a personal account by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Betta Edu.
The Minister has been enmeshed in criticisms for flagrant violation of Nigeria’s Monetary Rules 2009, which emphasises separating public and private cash in authorities transactions.
In line with Nigerian legal guidelines, “Private cash shall in no circumstances be paid right into a authorities checking account, nor shall any public cash be paid into a personal account, Minister Edu clearly violates this part”, the AGF’s workplace mentioned.
The legislation additional reads, “Any officer who pays public cash into a personal account is deemed to have carried out so with fraudulent intention.”
Clearly, the legislation stipulates this to stop fraud in government-related enterprise.
However in violation of this in style place of the legislation, Mrs Edu transferred over half a billion into a personal account.
Defending the act, Mrs Edu, by her media aide, Rasheed Zubair, final Friday, mentioned the fee of the N585.2 million into a personal account is authorized within the nation’s civil service regardless that Arogidigba International Journal has not been capable of set up the part of the legislation the minister is relying upon.
In his assertion, Zubair mentioned, “It’s authorized in civil service for a employees, the challenge accountant, to be paid and use the identical funds legally and retire similar with all receipts and proof after the challenge or programme is accomplished,”
Reacting to the matter, the Accountant Normal of the federation by her Director of Press, Bawa Mokwa, defined that her workplace doesn’t make funds on behalf of any Ministry, Division or Businesses of presidency for initiatives and programmes implementation.
She added that allocations are launched to self-accounting MDAs consistent with the funds, and such MDAs are chargeable for the implementation of their initiatives and funds for such initiatives.
She additional defined that, though her workplace obtained the mentioned request from the Ministry, it didn’t perform the fee.
Nevertheless, the Ministry was informed the suitable steps to soak up making such funds consistent with the established fee process.
“In such conditions, funds are normally processed by the affected Ministries as self-accounting entities and no bulk fee is meant to be made to a person’s account within the title of the Venture Accountant.
“Such fee ought to be despatched to the beneficiaries by their verified financial institution accounts.”
Dr. Madein, nonetheless, insisted on upholding the rules of accountability and transparency within the administration of public funds.