The Senate on Wednesday threatened to slash the allocations of over 100 ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) that failed to appear before its Public Accounts Committee to account for the funds they received from the Service Wide Vote.
Senate President Ahmad Lawan issued the threat after the committee chairman, Senator Matthew Urhoghide , raised a point of order during plenary that some heads of agencies that received money from the SWV had shunned several invitations extended for explanations on how they spent the funds.
The committee is probing more than 200 government agencies over N5 trillion received between 2017 and 2021 from SWV, the government’s contingency fund in the budget.
Urhoghide said despite sections 88 and 89 of the constitution empowering the parliament to summon federal government agencies to account for public funds they received, the affected agencies had vehemently refused to appear before his committee.
