Public Finance: Adeosun Tasks Treasury Managers on Accountability, Transparency
The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has challenged Treasury managers to ensure transparency and accountability in the management and control of the country’s public finance. Speaking at the second National Treasury Workshop in Tinapa, Cross River State, attended by Directors of Finance and Accounts in all Federal and State Governments’ Ministries, Departments and Agencies, Heads of Finance and Directors of Internal Audit and other stakeholders in national public finance management, the Minster called for a change in the mindset of Treasury managers to reform the basic polity. Adeosun, who was represented by the Director of Special Projects in the Federal Ministry of Finance, Dr. Mohammed K. Dikwa, said “the basic and fundamental approach to financial and economic reforms is to reform the basic polity. Reforms must be impacting and sustainable and should fit into the cultural ethos of Nigeria, among others. “There is the need to evolve a culture which is value-based. It...