Between 2014 and 2018, over 95 audits have been completed but concerns about the government’s anti-graft body using these audit reports to prosecute alleged corrupt officials continue to linger. The Committee thereby makes further recommendations to the Executive after its public hearing of the Commission’s audit reports. “It is now the Executive responsibility to implement those recommendations that the PAC has proffered to the Executive based on our audit reports,” he said. So far, since its establishment in 2008, the LACC has won just a case in 2010, based on evidence taken from the GAC audit report, while audit reports have also helped provide evidence for two other failed corruption cases flagged by the LACC. Officials at the GAC say the misinformation about the tenure of the three top officials of the agency is “quite disturbing” and has been distracting some of its staffs from work.

Source: Front Page Africa February 20, 2018 01:18 UTC