Zamfara auditor flags financial breaches, issues queries to 98 MDAs

Zamfara State Auditor-General, Abubakar Danmaliki, has raised concerns over financial management lapses across ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), with audit queries issued to 98 agencies following a review of their revenue and expenditure.

Danmaliki disclosed this in Gusau while presenting the state’s 2025 audited financial statements and annual audit activity report, noting that some of the queries had been resolved while others remained outstanding.

He said the audit identified issues relating to non-compliance with financial regulations, procurement laws and public expenditure management reforms.

Other concerns included incomplete fixed asset registers, unretired advances and imprests, as well as weaknesses in stores records and inventory management.

The Auditor-General urged accounting officers to respond promptly to audit queries and called on the state government to sanction officials found to have violated financial regulations.

He also recommended that all MDAs maintain comprehensive fixed asset registers in line with the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) Accrual Basis, alongside sustained training for accounting and audit personnel.

Despite the identified gaps, Danmaliki said the state’s 2025 financial statements were prepared in accordance with IPSAS Accrual Basis and fairly presented Zamfara’s financial position as of December 31, 2025.

He added that the audit found improvements in expenditure control and budgetary discipline across the MDAs.

The reports were presented in fulfilment of his constitutional mandate under Section 125(2) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, and Section 85 of the Zamfara State Audit Law 2021.