Members of Parliament from both side of the aisle have set to withhold budgets of some ministries, department and agencies (MDAs) who defiantly refused to honor parliamentary summon during the sub-appropriation.

Many MDA’s documents submitted to various sub-appropriation committees are said to be lacking transparency and accountability, with figures of their expenditure not corresponding to their bank statements and are not properly accounted for, and therefore, owing to these lapses, their reports maybe rejected in the coming days in Parliament.

The sub-appropriation committees are established in Parliament to examine MDA’s work on a yearly basis and to know institutions’ deliverables and the challenges they’re faced with in their different budget allocations.

House of Representatives have revealed to this medium that, lawmakers of various sub-appropriation committees in Parliament will commence the submission of their reports in the chambers of Parliament for scrutiny this week.

The committee Chairperson will lay their report after their findings during the two weeks long investigations on their MDAs of various committees.

During the sub-appropriation engagement, MPs in various committees unveil myriad of issues ranging from failure by MDAs to account for monies allocated to them, failure to submit complete documents to committees and poor performances of MDAs in their various sectors.

MPs also accused MDAs of failure to attend the committee hearing which they said is a contempt as by law, while others attend the summon, but performed poorly in the execution of their mandates for which they were allocated funds for.

According to some MPs, they observed several MDAs were overspending above their allocation, while others submitted scanty documents and failed to adhere to Public Financial Management Act during their work.

“Some MDAs vehemently failed to answer queries from Committees, while others stood down due to their failure to disclose their deliverables to the committees. “The worst of all is that some MDAs are said to have recklessly spent more on local travels than on foreign travels,” one of the MPs lamented.

Most of the MPs in some Committees that spoke to this medium lamented on inefficiency and ineffectiveness of MDAs during their operations.

Others say, some of the few MDAs attended MPs’ summons to account for their stewardship and they performed fairly good, while others required the need for more efficiency and were advised that they needed government’s intervention to address their concerns and challenges.

The heartrending development that MPs discovered was that, some MDAs have myriad of challenges noted than the successes reported during the execution of their duties and responsibility in the last fiscal year.