By Musa Baba Adamu
The Senate has suspended the 2025 budget defence for the Office of Auditor General of the Federation (AGoF)
The development may result to zero allocation to the OAGF as the Senate had earlier scheduled today, 22nd January, 2025 as deadline for budget defences to pave way for Committee on Appropriation to harmonise reports from various Committees.
Chairman of Senate Committee on Public Accounts, Senator Ahmed Wadada sent the Auditor General, S.K Chira and his team packing due to ill-preparation and lack of diligent handling of his documents.
Chira appeared before the Commuttee unprepared and could not answer questions posed to him concerning the 2024 budget performance his office.
Anger stirred up as a copy of budget documents being read by the Auditor General was different from copies made available to the Committee members.
But allying fears of missing the budget chances, Wadada told the press after the Committee meeting that: “It is left for the Auditor General for the Federation to go get prepared and return, even in two hours now that he has been told that Wednesday is the deadline.
“He is the Auditoe General auditing government agencies, Senate Public Accounts Committee is statutorily empowered to audit his office.
