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The Senate Public Accounts Committee, SPAC, on Tuesday vacated a N62.2 cardinal under-remittance query against the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, successful the 2019 audit study by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation, OAuGF.
The committee, successful an investigative league with Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, besides resolved to acceptable up a tiny committee to reconcile the remaining 76 queries raised against the Service successful the 2019 and 2020 audit reports.
The league focused connected the archetypal 77 queries connected alleged fiscal infractions against Customs.
Representative of the Auditor-General, arsenic directed by SPAC Chairman, Senator Ibrahim Dankwabo (Gombe North), work Query 1: That successful 2017, portion N691.242 cardinal was Customs’ full gross collection, lone N629.23 cardinal was remitted, leaving a equilibrium of N62.2 cardinal allegedly unremitted into the Federation Account.
Responding, Adeniyi said the N62.2 cardinal classified arsenic “unremitted” was wrongly arrived astatine owed to misclassification of levies collected connected behalf of different agencies.
“The under-remittance of N62.2 cardinal levelled against Customs successful the 2019 audit study was wrongly arrived astatine done misclassification of levies collected¡.
“While astir levies are to beryllium collected and remitted ...
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