NECO: Senate Gives NECO 24 Hours to provide receipts for N7.2 Billion or Pay The Amount.

The National Examination Council (NECO) was directed by the Senate committee on public account, to present the Receipt for 7.2 Billion Naira it paid for examination materials between January and June 2017.

The Chairman Senate Committee on Public account Senator Matthew Urhoghide gave the Directives following a query raised by the Office of Auditor-General of the Federation to that effect in its 2017 Report.

The Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation in its reports
Claimed that there is no evidence of receipt for the alleged Examination
materials procurement amounted to 7.2 Billion Naira paid between
January and June 2017.
The Committee asked the NECO Registrar to

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provide the receipts to the Committee within 24 hours or be ready to
refund the N7.2 billion to the Federal Government’s coffers.

Professor
Obioma however enjoined the committee to explain the penalty since he
was not the Registrar of NECO in 2017 when the purchases were made.

The
query reads: “Examination materials in the sum of N7.2 billion were
paid for between January and June 2017 without evidence of receipt of
the items into store

“There was no evidence to confirm the
receipt of the materials or their usage thereby contravening Financial
Regulation 2402 which requires a store keeper to certify that such
purchases have been received and taken on store ledger charge in the
store ledger.

“Inquiry to verify the true position of items
revealed that a committee was in charge of the receipt and distribution
of examination materials.

“However, despite the repeated request
for documentary evidence in relation to the supply, the Committee failed
to produce any document for verification.”