The current workshop for the 36 state commissioners for finance organised by the Workplace of the Accountant-Normal of the Federation (OAGF) in London, has questioned the sincerity of the President Bola Tinubu’s authorities within the ongoing plan to chop the price of governance.
The workshop, themed: ‘Public Monetary Administration and IPSAS Workshop for State Commissioners of Finance and Officers of OAGF,’ was held on the Hilton Kensington in London from March 4–9, 2024.
In line with the Income Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Fee (RMAFC), commissioners are entitled to $600 estacode for every evening spent on a overseas journey.
If the 36 commissioners of finance had been current on the occasion for not less than 5 days, it means a complete of $108,000, equal to N162,000,000 (on the charge of N1,500 per greenback), was spent on estacode. This didn’t embody the outrageous value of flights; different bills for the commissioners and estacodes for officers of the OAGF and others.
The Director of Press on the Accountant-Normal’s workplace, Bawa Mokwa, who confirmed the workshop, clarified that the OAGF members attending the assembly are sub-committees of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), with the implementation committee comprising the commissioners of finance of the 36 states.
Mokwa talked about that the selection of the UK because the venue for the occasion is because of the residency of the facilitators within the nation, who ensures the implementation of the workshop’s goals meticulously.
What this implies invariably is that a complete nation was put in plane to satisfy the facilitators when certainly Nigeria might have paid for them to return to the nation.
The choice to carry the convention within the UK clearly contradicts the declare by this current administration that it targets to chop the price of governance.
In a transfer to minimise authorities bills within the face of a persistent financial disaster, President Tinubu in January lowered the official delegation for native and overseas journeys by 60 per cent. He had additionally accepted the implementation of the Oronsaye report, which is geared toward decreasing authorities spending by merging and scrapping some ministries, departments, and companies.
Nonetheless, the London jamboree has questioned the sincerity of the federal government in its declare that it needs to chop prices.