Senate Committee approves 2025 budget for OAuGF

By Our Correspondent

The Senate Committee on Public Accounts (SPAC), has approved the 2025 budgetary proposal for the Office of Auditor General of the Federation (OAuGF).

Chairman of the Committee, Senator Aliyu Wadada Ahmed (Nasarawa West) had asked the Auditor-General of the Federation, Shaakaa Kanyitor Chira to clear grey areas observed in the budgetary proposals when first presented to the committee on Tuesday this week.

Consequently, the Auditor General, at the re-presentation of the budgetary proposal to the committee on Thursday, got express approval.

However, the Auditor General informed the committee that the problem of understaffing facing the office is yet to be fully addressed which led to request for recruitment of 247 new staff.

The Chairman of the committee in his remarks said “the grey areas observed in the 2025 budget proposal presented by the Office of Auditor General of the Federation on Tuesday this week have been addressed and cleared as clearly seen in the one presented today (Thursday).

“Accordingly, this committee has resolved to approve the budget for onward submission to the appropriation committee.

“Auditor-General is more or less a member of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts and by extension, that of the House of Representatives, whose budget should be given required attention it deserves.

“Your budget has been passed for now, but please avoid re-occurrence of grey areas earlier observed because your office is very strategic and sensitive”, he said.

In his response, the Auditor-General thanked the committee for re-consideration and approval of 2025 budgetary proposal of his office, which according to him, when finally passed by the National Assembly, will go a long way in helping the office to perform better in the new fiscal year.