Law School illegally paid cleaner N32 million – Official
The management of
the school also in 2013 alone, paid N36 million ‘several times’ to its staff as
dressing allowance.
This was revealed to
the Senate committee on public accounts on Thursday by the Office of the
auditor-general of the federation, Punch Newspaper reports.
The auditor-general,
Anthony Ayine, said he uncovered several anomalies in the financial records of
the Nigerian Law School over the years.
The report revealed
misappropriation and spending without approvals by the institution for years.
The 2015 Financial
Report of the office is currently being scrutinised by the Senate Public
Accounts Committee.
According to the
report, the payment of N36 million was made as dressing allowance of 52 workers
to the account of a single member of staff in violation of Nigeria’s Financial
Act.
“The examination of
payment records revealed that the Nigerian Law School several times paid N36
million to staff as dressing allowance in 2013 alone.
“The Management
could not substantiate these payments with any approval from Salaries and Wages
Commission to enable the audit team to determine the genuineness of these
payments to staff. No appropriation in this request,” part of the report read.
Reacting to the
revelations, the Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, Isa Chiroma, said
he was not in office when the issues occurred, but agreed that “government is a
continuum.”
The Nigerian Law
School is one of the many agencies that have been indicted for misappropriation
of funds and spending without approval.
Some agencies
indicted in recent times include the Nigerian Customs Service, Federal Inland
Revenue Service, the Niger Delta Development Commission, among others.
Many other agencies
have been accused of failing to submit their audited reports to the Office of
the auditor-general
This recent
revelation comes months after the OAuGF queried the Customs Service over N28
billion unremitted fund into the Federation Account in 2015.
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