Executive Chairman of the Commission, Victor Muruako, made this known in a statement in Abuja, on Saturday.
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The Chairman of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC), Victor Muruako, has called for investment in basic amenities to improve citizens’ livelihood.
Its Chairman, Chief Victor Muruako, said this at the opening of a five-day capacity building training for Fiscal Responsibility Boards of Kaduna and Sokoto States.
The federal tax agency is also requesting the federal lawmakers to approve for it, the establishment of the Federal Revenue Court of Nigeria.
FRC made the allegation on Wednesday in Abuja at the ongoing public hearing on 2022 to 2024 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP).
They also called on the National Assembly to speed up the amendment of the Fiscal Responsibility Act, 2007, to include enforceable sanctions for officials who default in the performance of their roles in the preparation and timely submission of the budget to the legislature at the national and sub-national levels.
He said this on Friday in Abuja at the close of a five-day study visit, which began on Monday, by members of the Benue State FRC.
Chairman of the Commission, Victor Muruako, told newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja that it arrived at the figure based on analyses of the annual audited financial reports of the agencies concerned.
The Senate Committee chaired by Senator Mathew Urhoghide hinged the query on 2018 audited report which is being considered by the National Assembly.
The Fiscal Responsibility Commission is seeking for increased and sustained funding for Federal Government establishments in Ebonyi State to execute its projects.
About N11.59 billion was remitted as independent revenue into the Consolidated Revenue Fund in 2017, a report by the Fiscal Responsibility Commission has said.
The Fiscal Responsibility Commission says it will develop strategies that will fast-track remittance of surplus revenue into federal government coffers by line agencies in 2019.
Victor Muruako, the Acting Chairman, Fiscal Responsibility Commission, has charged some Federal Government agencies to remit operating surplus into the Consolidated Revenue Fund promptly.
Muaroko gave the advice in Abuja on Wednesday when the President of Chartered Institute of Forensic and Investigative Auditors of Nigeria, Dr Victoria Enape, visited him.
A statement in Abuja on Wednesday by FRC’s Communication Strategist, Bede Anyanwu, quoted the FRC Acting Chairman, Victor Muruako, as making the allegation during an interface between the academy and FRC.
Acting Chairman of FRC, Victor Muruako, said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja.
He said this on Tuesday in Abuja at a stakeholders’ dialogue session with the management of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria led by its Director General, Malam Mansur Liman.
According to the judge, the contract entered into by Stanbic IBTC with the Standard Bank of South Africa was against the provisions of Section 7 of the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion Act, which seeks to protect the country from being used as dumping ground
He called on civil servants, managers of agencies, heads of development centres and finance departments of local governments to exhibit zero tolerance to corruption
Muruako made the disclosure in Abuja at a reconciliation meeting between the FRC and the Nigeria Communications Commission over the latter’s non-remittance of operating surplus from 2007 to 2012