The Senate Public Accounts Committee (SPAC) has indicted 59 out of the 114 Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) queried by the Office of the Auditor-General of Federation (AuGF).
The Senate had slated the report for consideration on Tuesday in the order paper after the conclusion of part 1 of 2015 Office of Auditor General’s report, but later deferred the consideration till further notice.
According to the report, 59 MDAs had their queries sustained with recommendations for consideration and approval of the Senate.
In the report sighted by BusinessDay, 46 agencies were cleared by the SPAC Chairman, Matthew Urhoghide.
The committee also invited all the MDAs queried, out of which 84 made submissions and appeared before the lawmakers to defend the queries raised against them.
The report revealed that 21 MDAs sent a written response to the committee, but did not appear before the hearing while seven MDAs neither made a submission nor appeared before the committee.
The report further stated that two of the MDAs reported to the committee that either EFCC or ICPC or both were in possession of the original copies of their documents and therefore could not respond or appear before the committee.
