The Federal Fire Service Commandant General was grilled by the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts yesterday.
(FFS) Ibrahim Liman, for spending more than N1 billion on recruitment and logistics without following established financial rules from 2017 to date.
The Office of the Auditor General of the Federation had questioned the Service about spending the money on the said exercise when there was only one recruitment exercise held during the time period in question.
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The FFS boss, who testified before the Committee chaired by Hon. Busayo Oluwole Oke (PDP-Osun), was unable to provide satisfactory answers to the Committee members on the issues raised.
The CG also failed to back up his explanations with relevant documents, necessitating the committee to write to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP) seeking the account statements and expenditure of the service
Members of the Committee also raised concern that the award of several contracts by the Service which promoted the chairman to direct the FFS boss to produce the nominal role of monies spent within the period under review before the Committee unfailingly
Oke pointed out that since the expenditure records of the service was not clear enough, the BPP should include the name of contractors of FFS and their financial records while appears before the Committee
Also all the Ministers summoned by the Committee over their failure to appear before it over several audit queries against their Ministries, Departments and Agencies did not show up yesterday.
The affected ministries were Works and Housing, Health, Interior, Ministry of Environment
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Already the Committee had written to both the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General of the Federation respectively over the development.
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