Another N35bn Service Wide Vote unaccounted for by OHSF •As Reps express displeasure- Tribune

In Breaking News
Spread the love

The House of Representatives Committee. on Public Accounts, on Thursday, expressed dismay over the inability of the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation (OHSF) to account for over N35 billion from the Service Wide Vote received from the Budget Office of the Federation over a period of nine years.

Consequently, the committee has given the Permanent Secretary of the HSF, Mr Remi Adelakun who appeared before the committee on the whopping sum of N17.6billion earlier recorded against the office by the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation, a two-week ultimatum within which to re-appear before it with relevant documents on the missing money.

At the yesterday’s hearing, while Mr Adelakun confirmed that the OHSF received only N17.6 billion from the Service Wide Vote between 2004 and 2012, the Budget Office insisted that over N52billion was released to the office and rolled out the break down of the disbursement of the funds within the period in question.

According to the Budget Office, in 2004 the OHSF received N2.7 billion, N9.8 million in 2005, N701.7 million in 2006, N896.3 million in 2007, N5.3 billion in 2008, N612.9 million plus another N70 million in 2009, N17.6 billion in 2010 while other releases were  N13.6 billion in 2011 and N8.5 billion in 2012.

The Chairman of the Committee, Honourable Solomon Adeola-Olamilekan, pointed out that the OHSF documents only referred to the                                                                   N17.6 billion it received in the year 2010, saying that based on the figures

given by the Budget Office, there was a disparity of almost N35 billion and requested for the documents for the rest of the years in question.

You may also read!

The Historical Reasons Why I Strongly Support President Bola Tinubu  By Reno Omokri

Spread the love As President Bola Tinubu begins his state visit to Enugu, it is perhaps pertinent to let

Read More...

The Psychology Behind the Insult from GNI to Mr. Temitope Amusan. My 2 cents – Abiodun Egunjobi

Spread the loveMy attention has been drawn to a rhetorical insult sent via a viral video from GNI to

Read More...

Here’s to Edmund Zar-Zar Bargblor: Cheers to The Man, The Myth, The Political and Academic Juggernaut at 70 – Abiodun Egunjobi

Here’s to Edmund Zar-Zar Bargblor: Cheers to The Man, The Myth, The Political and Academic Juggernaut at 70

Read More...
0 0 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
guest

0 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

Mobile Sliding Menu

0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x