Accountability and transparency issues have remained big challenges facing public expenditure by over 900 Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government (MDAs) over the years, leaving the Public Accounts Committees (PACs) of both chambers of the National Assembly with the responsibilities of looking through their books to ascertain what were rightly or wrongly done. JOSHUAEGBODO writes on the expectations as the 10th House of Representatives’ PAC unveils agenda
The Public Accounts Committee, simply abbreviated as PAC in both the Senate and the House of Representatives is the only standing, and, or special committee in the National Assembly which has a constitutional mention, and must therefore be in existence in each parliamentary assembly, irrespective of any choice of the players.
