{"id":82388,"date":"2026-02-02T05:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82388"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:18:00","slug":"reps-pac-moves-to-clear-audit-reports-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/02\/reps-pac-moves-to-clear-audit-reports-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"Reps PAC Moves to Clear Audit Reports Backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee (PAC), has resolved to clear the backlog of federal audit reports and ensure the submission of the 2023, 2024 and 2025 reports by the Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation.<\/p>\n<p>PAC Chairman, Bamidele Salam, disclosed this at a retreat for committee members and stakeholders in Ghana, noting that the committee inherited a major accountability gap in 2023, when the latest available audit report was for 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He said the committee has since secured the 2020, 2021 and 2022 reports but stressed that the delay remains unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>To address the situation, Salam said the PAC would convene a high-level stakeholders\u2019 meeting involving key agencies to agree on a clear timeline for clearing outstanding reports.<\/p>\n<p>The committee expressed optimism that significant progress would be made before the end of the year, strengthening oversight and accountability in public finance management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee (PAC), has resolved to clear the backlog of federal audit reports and ensure the submission of the 2023, 2024 and 2025 reports by the Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation. PAC Chairman, Bamidele Salam, disclosed this at a retreat for committee members and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82388","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=82388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82390,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82388\/revisions\/82390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}