National Assembly Passes Federal Audit Service Bill For Buhari’s Assent

By Iyojo Ameh

The National Assembly has passed the Federal Audit Service Bill which prescribes among others, a five-year jail term or five million naira or both for any accounting officer, who prevents the Office of the Auditor General for the Federation from accessing their account books.

The Senate concurred with the House of Representatives which had earlier passed the proposed legislation.

Senate Leader, Ibrahim Gobir, led the debate for the concurrence which the upper legislative chamber approved after dissolving to the committee of the Whole.

The Chairman, Senate committee on Public Accounts , Senator Matthew Urhoghide, told newsmen that the national assembly is amending the Federal Audit Service Bill after fifty six years having been enacted since 1956.