The Accountant General of the Federation, AGF, Oluwatoyin Madein, has clarified that the Minister of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, is not supposed to make payments into a private account.
AGF confirmed receiving the request from Edu for an N585 million payment but did not carry out the payment.
It also clarified that the OAGF does not make payments on behalf of MDAs for projects and programmes implemented by the MDAs.
In a statement by the Director of Press, Bawa Mokwa, on Saturday, the AGF was reacting to media reports concerning a request from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation for N585 million payment of grants to vulnerable groups in some states of the federation.
The AGF explained, “Although her office received the said request from the Ministry, it did not pay. The Ministry was, however, advised on the appropriate steps to make such payments in line with the established payment procedure”, she said.
Madein noted that allocations are released to self-accounting MDAs in line with the budget, and such MDAs are responsible for the implementation of their projects and payments for such projects.
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