Senate demands refund of N19bn paid to MDAs without finance minister’s approval

The Senate has demanded the refund of the N19 billion the Budget Office transferred to four Ministries Department and Agencies (MDAs) without the Ministry of Finance’s approval.

The Auditor General of the Federation had in a memo in 2016 revealed that the Budget Office could not identify the four MDAs that benefited from the payment.

The disbursement, according to the AugF, was also made without approval from the then Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning.

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