The National Assembly has passed the Federal Audit Service Bill which prescribes, among others, a five-year jail term or N5 million or both for any accounting officer who prevents the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation from accessing their account books.
The Senate concurred with the House of Representatives which had earlier passed the proposed legislation.
Senate Leader, Ibrahim Gobir, led the debate for the concurrence which the upper legislative chamber approved after dissolving to the committee of the whole.
The Chairman, Senate committee on Public Accounts, Matthew Urhoghide, told newsmen that the Federal Audit Service Bill was enacted in 1956.
