The national register for recording all receipts of funds, materials, and other resources made available for the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic does not yet contain information to confirm that beneficiary agencies received the funds and donations registered for them, the Federal Government has said.
It made this public in the interim report on the special audit of the Federal Government of Nigeria’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic for the period of 1st March to 30th June 2020.
The report was released by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation and signed by the Auditor-General for the Federation, Anthony Ayine.
Additional details obtained from the report in Abuja on Wednesday showed that the Federal Government could not confirm if beneficiaries actually received the N226.8bn COVID-19 intervention funding.
The auditor-general’s report spotted some gaps in the documentation of the intervention process, as it stressed that the national register for the initiative should be improved.
The auditor-general’s report recommended that the national register be improved to enable the tracking of pledges, commitments and actual disbursements.
It said the register should track distributions, including where the funds or materials were received and the purpose/beneficiary to which they were applied.
