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LAGOS ASSEMBLY BEGINS PROBE OF INDICTED MINISTRIES, DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES

the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Lagos State House of Assembly has commenced the probing of Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the government in consonance with the state’s Auditor-General’s report for 2021.

Honorable Saka Solaja, chairman of the committee disclosed this on Wednesday when he received the first set of government officials summoned to respond to queries raised in the report.

While describing PAC as a statutory establishment of Sections 125 and 129 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, he said that the committee serves as an important instrument of checks, probity and accountability in Legislative institutions at both the Federal and the State levels.

He noted as well that the probe would cover economic activities of all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government between January 1 and December 31, 2021.

 

VOP Lagos

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