Reps Probe 37 Federal Varsities Over AuGF’s Queries
Members of the House of Representatives’ Public Accounts Committee, PAC, Wednesday, commenced a large scale investigation into the finances and expenditures of the 37 federal universities across the country, with respect to their level of compliance with the Public Service Financial Regulation, PSFR.
This followed the decision to act on pending queries by the office of the Auditor General of the Federation since 2014, urging the National Assembly to compel the institutions in question to explain the rationale behind their violation of the PSFR.
Towards this direction, the committee, led by Kingsley Chinda (PDP, Rivers), grouped its members in six different units based on the country’s geo-political zones to undertake the probe.
Chinda, who inaugurated the six sub-committees Wednesday, told his colleagues that each of the sub-committees had up to four weeks to turn in their reports.
He said: “If at the end of four weeks, and the assignments are not concluded, the sub-committees stand dissolved. We will not for any reason extend the time given the exigencies of the matter.
