THE AGP’s latest audit report of federal civil accounts is a detailed record of governance failures and institutional collapse. The numbers are staggering, but the deeper failure is cultural. Trillions sit in unrecovered loans. Billions were lost because regulators forgot to charge late fees. If not deliberate, these are embarrassingly elementary failures. No ministry is being outwitted by complex fraud. Monthly reports go unfiled. Collected taxes never reach the treasury. Bank accounts remain open past legal deadlines. Routine tasks are left undone. Sadly, the ministries and other government entities do not respond to the audit paras. The........

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