{"id":57504,"date":"2024-12-02T16:43:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T16:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=57504"},"modified":"2024-12-02T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T16:43:09","slug":"pap-clarifies-agfs-audit-report-attributes-infractions-to-previous-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/02\/pap-clarifies-agfs-audit-report-attributes-infractions-to-previous-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"PAP Clarifies AGF&#8217;s Audit Report, Attributes Infractions to Previous Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), has addressed concerns raised by the Auditor-General of the Federation\u2019s (AGF), audit report, clarifying that the alleged financial irregularities highlighted in the document occurred before the tenure of the current leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The PAP confirmed that the infractions, including unauthorized withdrawals exceeding \u20a66 billion and undocumented tuition payments, pertain to events from 2020 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Monday, Mr. Igoniko Oduma, Special Assistant on Media to the PAP Administrator, Dr. Dennis Otuaro, emphasized that these issues are unrelated to the present administration.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Otuaro, appointed in March 2024, has since prioritized financial accountability and operational reform within the organization.<\/p>\n<p>The statement read: \u201cSince his appointment, Dr. Otuaro has strictly adhered to extant rules and regulations governing financial transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Under his leadership, the PAP office has implemented stringent financial controls and oversight mechanisms to promote transparency and accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Otuaro has also initiated a thorough review of the Programme\u2019s operations,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), has addressed concerns raised by the Auditor-General of the Federation\u2019s (AGF), audit report, clarifying that the alleged financial irregularities highlighted in the document occurred before the tenure of the current leadership. The PAP confirmed that the infractions, including unauthorized withdrawals exceeding \u20a66 billion and undocumented tuition payments, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":57505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57506,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57504\/revisions\/57506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}