The House of Representatives Committee connected Public Accounts is acceptable to big the 11th Annual Conference and General Assembly of the West Africa Association of Public Accounts Committees (WAAPAC) from 8 to 12 September, astatine the National Assembly Complex successful Abuja.
This was disclosed successful a connection by the WAAPAC Secretariat successful Accra, Ghana connected Wednesday.
Established successful 2009 aft a World Bank Institute seminar organised successful concern with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) and the Parliamentary Centre (PC), WAAPAC brings unneurotic legislatures crossed West Africa to fortify parliamentary accountability done adjacent learning and cognition sharing.
Cameroon, The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, and Sierra Leone were portion of its founding session.
This year’s gathering, with the taxable “Strengthening Parliamentary Oversight of Public Debt: The Role of Finance and Public Accounts Committees,” is expected to gully implicit 300 participants, including lawmakers, auditors, fiscal argumentation experts, and nationalist concern professionals from crossed West Africa and beyond.
According to the organisers, discussions volition centre connected equipping Public Accounts and Finance Committees with the capableness for effectual oversight of nationalist indebtedness and borrowing, examining determination indebtedness trends and risks, defining legislative roles successful indebtedness governance, and processing strategies to guarantee indebtedness sustainability.
The five-day programme volition reason with country-specific enactment plans aimed astatine strengthening parliamentary oversight of indebtedness crossed the sub-region.
Delegates volition see members of Public Accounts and Finance Committees, parliamentary staff, and Auditors-General from crossed West Africa.
Representatives from eSwatini, Kenya, South Africa, and parliamentary accountability networks specified arsenic the African Organisation of Public Accounts Committees (AFROPAC) and the Southern Africa Development Community Organisation of Public Accounts Committees (SADCOPAC) are besides expected to attend.
Speaking astatine a property briefing successful Abuja, the Chairman of the House Committee connected Public Accounts, Bamidele Salam, confirmed that Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, volition state the lawsuit open.
The Minister of Finance volition present the keynote address, portion the league volition besides diagnostic presentations from the Chairpersons of WAAPAC and AFROPAC, arsenic good arsenic goodwill messages from the UNDP Country Director, planetary improvement partners, and parliamentary bodies.
Mr Salam described the lawsuit arsenic an important accidental to showcase Nigeria’s enactment successful parliamentary accountability.
He stressed that the league would supply a level for countries to speech experiences connected nationalist indebtedness oversight.
“When we conscionable astatine the league and Ghana, Mali, South Africa, oregon Tanzania bring their experiences, we volition beryllium capable to fortify our institutions to beryllium capable to present more,” helium said.
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The president explained that Nigeria, arsenic the largest ideology and astir precocious system successful Africa, has a work to show enactment successful specified initiatives.
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