Nathaniel Zaccheaus
The Senate Public Accounts Committee (SPAC) has turned down documents presented to it by the Nigerian Law Reform Commission, which explained how the N756m it collected from the Service Wide Vote (SWV) was spent.
The agency was supposed to spend the fund to carry out the Revision of the Law of the Federation.
The Chairman of the Commission, Prof Jummai Audi appeared before members of the Committee to defend the funds the agency received from the Service Wide Vote.
The panel is currently probing the disbursement of the SWV from 2017- 2021.
Audi could not convince the senators on how the funds were disbursed and spent.
The Committee noted that members of the Law Reforms panel collected sitting allowances totalling N3m when no meeting was held.
The lawmakers also observed that one person appended his signature to about 15 people.
The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Mathew Urhoghide complained that the Commission failed to itemise how the N756m was spent by the commission for the production of Revision of Nation’s Law.
He said, ” You did not itemize how you spent N756m, the papers are not properly put together.
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“We have found out that the papers are not properly put together, if we tell you to go back and do it again, you will not be able to do it.
“The disbursements for money were disconnected for over a period of time, list out all the expenditure.
“Make available, all things used the money for and attach the receipt to them, put your people together, we just want to be sure that the money was used, our your account and furnace department together.”
When the Committee asked the Chairperson on when the Revision of Law of the Federation will be ready, she said, “It is not within me to determine it, we have submitted it to the printer to print it.”
