As Assistant Auditor General, I have been responsible, amongst other things, for various citizen-related reports to the Public Accounts Committee, covering for instance: women’s shelters, measures taken to help the homeless, case-processing times in state administrative bodies, incorrect social security payments, integration measures, supervision of mental health in the work place and research resources in hospitals.

For example, the appointment of the Auditor-General and his deputy lies within the remit of the President. This clearly goes against the Mexico Declaration on Supreme Audit Institutions Independence as endorsed by the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI).

Judges, the registrar, assistant rapporteurs and other staff have to be appointed, court rooms, office space and equipment must be provided for.

10. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Minister of Justice of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Nigerian Assembly, the President and Deputy President of the Senate of the Nigerian Assembly, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the President of the Commission of the African Union and the Chair of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

4. The Deputy Executive Director shall be appointed by the Management Board on the grounds of merit and documented administrative and management skills, as well as his/her relevant experience in the field of management of the external borders on the proposal of the Executive Director.

The following are regarded as occupying administrative posts: all staff assigned to administrative and financial departments; all secretaries, whatever the departments to which they have been assigned; and the small number of staff assigned to scientific departments as administrative assistants.