The Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, recently addressed journalists, including PREMIUM TIMES Business Editor, Bassey Udo, on the activities of his office in 2019, particularly the reforms to curb corruption in the system.Excerpts:
We ae now trying to upload information to the portal. Some information are historical. They will need to be put in the system. Before that is done, the Financial Officers and those who will be managing the system from the MDAs will need to be trained. The public needs to be sensitized on what they should be expecting. All these are being rolled out now.
Talking about whether all these should not have come before the launching of the portal, what I have to say is that you cannot jump the gun. So, when I stopped it, I asked them to go back and recharge 7.5 per cent. That is that person’s luck, or is it bad luck? But, the law has to be obeyed. Nobody can implement any policy unless he has the instrument to do so, whether administrative or legal. Otherwise, I can be queried for not following the law.
We have a system called GIFMIS . We can easily see how much the balances of the accounts of all those MDAs on GIFMIS are. Those agencies which are not on GIFMIS, we need to go physically to meet them and make some verifications to ascertain how much they have at the end of the year. The TSA is one of those reforms. The International Public Sector Accounting Standard implementation is another. LPPIS is the other. Of recent, there is the transparency portal that the Federal Government asked us to set up, which you asked about earlier.
The objective is to be transparent, open, accountable, and to ensure the public is aware of what is going on with funds and resources being managed or kept on their behalf, reminding everyone that this is the treasury of the nation. What this means is that resources come in and out for one programme or another.
However, what I can say about the portal is that it has not fully taken off. The government is still uploading data because there is a timeframe from where we want to start. Ministries are expected to play a role in the process. PT: Those seem to be the kind of situations captured in the 2017 report of the Auditor General of the Federation. Have you been able to reconcile those records and answer the audit queries over huge sums approved for MDAs, which were not accounted for?Sometimes I get amazed by some of these allegations in the media. When I asked my colleague whether some of these reports were truly coming from his office, he says, in some cases, he is also hearing some of these figures for the first time.
Transparency portal indeed! U can't give wat u don't have
Because baba isn't transparent and he's untruthful
The president should kickstart by declaring his asset.
It won't even work..... Another elephant and soon to be dead project.... We are not sincere to ourselves
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