The House of Representatives yesterday placed the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency on “Full Status Enquiry” for its failure to submit its audited accounts for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 to the Auditor-General of the Federation.
The Oluwole Oke-led House Committee on Public Accounts took the decision at the continued hearing of the “Deliberate and Reckless Refusal By Non Treasury and Partially Funded Agencies” to render their audited accounts from 2014 to 2018.
NIMASA Executive Director, Finance and Accounts, Bashir Jamiu, told the committee that”We cannot submit an audit from when we started. We must get the closing balance as at the last time we submitted the audit.”
Julius Dung, who represented the Auditor General of the Federation at the session, confirmed that, his office had not received NIMASA’s accounts for the periods under review.
The committee’s chairman said it was embarrassing for NIMASA not to have a management account from 2012 to 2018.
The committee resolved that NIMASA be placed on “full status enquiry” to investigate its “flagrant disregard to laid down financial and administrative laws.”
