According to the Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun,
the agencies have been audited by the Federal Government which is set
to recover about N450 billion operating surpluses that were not returned
by 33 agencies from 2010 to 2015.
Adeosun further said other agencies that have been listed for probe after the audit include the Nigerian
Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Nigerian
Export-Import Bank, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, National Open
University of Nigeria, Nigerian Railway Corporation, West African
Examination Council, Joint Administrations and Matriculation Board and the National Hospital, Abuja.
The
minister revealed that a committee headed by the accountant-general of
the federation (AGF) had been set up to recover the money from the
agencies after they had been audited.
In her words: “We
know that in some cases that money would have already been spent so
they will now give us a proposal of how they are going to repay but the
money has to be paid,” she said.
“We
are also looking at their Treasury Single Account (TSA) to understand
how much money they actually have because in some cases these surpluses
are in their accounts.
“Our plan is not to grind to a halt the activities of any agency but to institute fiscal discipline in all the agencies," she said.
Already,
some of the agencies are said to have began returning some of the funds
in their coffers to the Federal Government, Adeosun said the FG is
determined to recover all the N450billion.
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