The Afenifere Renewal Group has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to set up a judicial panel of inquiry to investigate the cost of governance since 2009 when late President Umar Yar’Adua took ill.
ARG’s National Chairman, Olawale Oshun, asked the Federal Government to extend the investigation of the purchase of armoured vehicles by the aviation ministry to other ministries, departments and agencies of government.
Oshun also said that the investigation should be extended to the Presidency and the legislature.
In a statement made available to Saturday PUNCH on Thursday, Oshun said, “We are convinced that the revelations coming out of the aviation ministry represent only a fraction of the widespread disregard for probity and budget-based administration in our public service.”
The statement added, “Just recently, the House Committee Chairman on Public Accounts cried out that budgetary performance of capital expenditure currently stands at 28 per cent; recurrent expenditure at 72 per cent while the N1.6tn Service Wide Vote spent at the President’s discretion, stands at 90 per cent.
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