Fake Agency Scandal: Budget Office speaks on budgetary allocation

ALSO READ: Fake Agency Probe: Reps panel threatens sanctions as MDAs ignore summons Mr Yakubu said different institutions exercise separate statutory powers over establishment approvals, recruitment, remuneration, financial clearance, treasury releases and procurement, ensuring that no single office can convert an appropriation into public expenditure.

Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Tanimu Yakubu No financial clearance Mr Yakubu explained that although the National Assembly appropriated N1.

The Budget Office of the Federation has said no public funds were released to the non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) as statutory expenditure controls prevented the appropriation from translating into actual spending.