Accounting: Perm Sec FCTA Treasury harps on keeping extant rules

Stories  Stories by  Stanley  Onyekwere

The Permanent Secretary, Treasury and Budget, Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Mr. Adamu Ibrahim Wanki, has stressed the need for Accountants and Account Officers across the Secretariats, Departments, and Agencies (SDAs) of the FCTA to always stick to the extant rules, which the Administration is known for.

Wanki made this point yesterday, while receiving the Managing Director of Leverage Integrated Business Consult, Mr. Salawu Zubairu,that paid him a working visit in his office.

He noted that it is necessary to remind such staff of the FCTA on why they must follow the laid-down guidelines by the Government, whilst discharging their professional duties.

He however, decried that more harm is done to the system when professionals flout the guidelines, especially while providing services to aid the use of the scarce resources available to the government.

He noted that while the private sector plays a complementary role, the professionals within the government should learn to abide by the financial regulations, guidelines and Public Service Rules (PSR) for effective service delivery.

According to him, by following the laid down principles of their profession, naturally,the staff will operate with high sense of confidence and integrity to justify their actions without fear,even after retirement from service.

He reiterated that the FCT Administration is committed to infrastructural development across the 8,000 Square kilometers of the FCT.

He therefore, enjoined the staff to eschew nonchalant attitudes towards financial regulations but to embrace proper financial management to ensure rapid development in the nation’s capital.

Wanki opined that the success of the FCT Administration is certain, if the government’s financial policies are properly followed without any form of compromise from either internal or external factors; adding that following the government’s financial guidelines is a sure bet for administrative success.

He also called on the staff to support the Nyesom Wike’s led Administration, which by extension is supporting the ‘Renewed Hope Agenda’ of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

He added that the massive infrastructural development being witnessed in the FCTA by Wike was achieved due to effective financial management ofgovernment’s scarce resources.

Earlier in his remarks, the MD, Leverage Integrated Business Consult, Salawu Zubairu, assured the Permanent Secretary of his willingness to collaborate and support the FCT Administration.

Zubairu lauded Wike, for thinking out of the box to have achieved the transformation, especially the infrastructural development of the FCT,  which according to him is making Abuja a World-Class City as envisaged by its founding fathers.