The Senate has queried the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) over its failure to release records of 2015 Global Funding of the agency for proper auditing.
The query was based on the 2016 Report of Auditor General of the Federation submitted to the Senate Committee on Public Accounts headed by Senator Mathew Urhoghide.
The query reads:
The chairman of the committee at the weekend also chided the agency for failing to include the financial activities of the Global Fund, including amount received from the Fund and how it was utilised into the 2015 Financial Statements of the Agency.
Responding, the agency’s Director of Finance and Account, Nsikak Ebong, said, “ the global fund grants records are always available for review. “These documents have always been made available to auditor or review on demand .”
The representative of the Auditor General of the Federation, Eyitayo Agesin, was however quick to counter the Finance Director of NACA saying when the request was made in 2016, NACA was unable to present the documents for audit.
According to him, the report was written in August 2016 and NACA responded on February 20, 2017, almost about seven months after.
“We asked them to respond within 21 days but they didn’t do that. When NACA responded after seven months, they simply said ‘This is noted.
