{"id":61829,"date":"2025-02-27T03:32:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T03:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61829"},"modified":"2025-02-27T03:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T03:32:33","slug":"appoint-auditor-general-for-fct-area-councils-reps-urge-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/27\/appoint-auditor-general-for-fct-area-councils-reps-urge-wike\/","title":{"rendered":"Appoint Auditor-General for FCT Area Councils, Reps Urge Wike\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives has called on the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to urgently appoint a substantive Auditor-General for the FCT Area Councils, citing legal provisions that mandate the position.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution followed concerns raised during a Public Accounts Committee hearing, where lawmakers noted that the absence of an Auditor-General has stalled the submission of audited financial reports.<\/p>\n<p>Committee Chairman Bamidele Salam emphasized the need for intervention, suggesting a formal request to Wike for an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>The motion, moved by Obordor Mitema (PDP, Bayelsa), and seconded by Usman Bala, highlighted key infractions, including the non-submission of financial reports from 2023-2024 and the failure to remit pension deductions.<\/p>\n<p>A five-member subcommittee, led by Tochukwu Okere, has been tasked with investigating the issue and making recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>Top officials, including Abuja Municipal Area Council Chairman Christopher Maikalangu and Bwari Area Council Chairman John Gabaya, attended the hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 The House of Representatives has called on the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, to urgently appoint a substantive Auditor-General for the FCT Area Councils, citing legal provisions that mandate the position. The resolution followed concerns raised during a Public Accounts Committee hearing, where lawmakers noted that the absence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61829","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=61829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61830,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61829\/revisions\/61830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}