{"id":104859,"date":"2023-05-16T18:19:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T17:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=104859"},"modified":"2023-05-16T18:19:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T17:19:18","slug":"senate-directs-sec-dg-to-refund-n593m-vehicle-allowances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/senate-directs-sec-dg-to-refund-n593m-vehicle-allowances\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate directs SEC DG to refund N593m vehicle allowances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Senate has directed the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to return N594 million illegal vehicle allowances to the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federal Government.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe resolution followed the Senate\u2019s adoption of the recommendation of the Public Accounts Committee on the 2018 report of the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation (AuGF) which indicted the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee said it sustained the indictment against the agency following its failure to appear before it to defend the AuGF query against it.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nAlthough the Commission made a written submission, it failed to appear before the Committee chaired by Senator Matthew Urhoghide (PDP \u2013 Edo South).<\/p>\n<p>The AuGF query reads: \u201cIn 2013, the Director-General, while serving as Executive Commissioner, was paid the sum of N39 million as monetised car allowances to run for four years, but two years after he was appointed Director General, he was again paid the sum of N84 million as monetised car allowances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2015, the Commission procured four project vehicles to meet its need at the sum of N144 million, but instead of making use of the vehicles for purposes they were acquired, the Director General and Commissioners turned them to their sole uses, which contravened Chapter 9 (1)&amp;(11) of the Commission\u2019s Condition of Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, the sum of N469 million was further expended on the payment of the monetised motor vehicle insurance in 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the view of the foregoing, payment of N39 million in 2013 and N84 million in 2015, totalling N124 million to the Director-General was not proper and cannot be considered as proper charges against Public funds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Senate, therefore, adopted the position of the Auditor General for the Director-General to refund N124 million paid to him and recover and remit N469 million expended on the payment of monetised motor vehicle allowances and motor insurance allowances from the beneficiaries to the Consolidated Revenue Fund and forward the payment details to the Office of Auditor General.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has directed the Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to return N594 million illegal vehicle allowances to the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Federal Government.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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