The recent exposure of existent of a fake Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council and Presidential Economic Advisory Council, allegedly run by Adeniyi Adeyemi, has exposed weakness of federal government and the National Assembly oversight responsibilities, according to public sector analysts
The federal government recently accused Adeyemi, of allegedly parading himself as the Director-General of the non-existent agency, despite the allocation of about N1.4 billion budgetary allocation, deployment of staff from the office of the Accountant General of the Federation OAGF.
Sam Amadi, former chairman of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, speaking with BusinessDay, in Abuja, noted that insiders connivance in the government establishment must have created opportunities for the ongoing problem
According to him, “I was in government and I know how the budget process work.
“For them to include a budetary provision for an organisation that the government says does not exist, there must be a fraudulent insider , in the Presidency.
