Buhari Orders Quick Resolution Of Audit Queries

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday, August 3, 2015 issued a stern directive to the auditor general of the federation that all outstanding audit queries be resolved within 30 days. The President has also instructed the auditor general to make sure that going forward, every arising audit query should be put to bed in 24 hours.

The President’s directives were confirmed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media & Publicity, Garba Shehu.

“The era of impunity is gone. The President is taking the war on corruption to the civil service. He is not happy that standard operating procedures and financial regulations are no longer being observed as they should.

“President Buhari would ensure that public officials and civil servants in the service of the Federal Government pay a heavy price from now on for violating financial regulations or disregarding audit queries”. 

“On his watch, President Buhari wants to see firm action against those who violate extant financial regulations, not the prevarications and shenanigans that went on in the past in the form of endless probes and public inquiries,” Shehu said.