Reps To Petition Buhari Over Agencies Refusal To Appear Before House Committee

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The House of Representatives has expressed its displeasure over the refusal of some agencies of the government to appear before its committee on public account to answer questions over financial irregularities traced to them or clarify some records provided by other agencies.

The House of Representatives is set to petition President Muhammadu Buhari over the refusal of some of these agencies.

The Committee is not pleased with the refusal of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emiefele, Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Managing Director of the Nigeria Port Authority, Haha Hadiza Bala Usman and the Bureau for Public Enterprises to appear before it over sales of federal government landed property across the country.

The National Emergency Management Agency, and the Petroleum Equalization Fund also failed to appear before the Committee on Public Account over the sales of some government property.

The chairman of the committee, Wole Oke, has directed the Clerk of the Committee to forward a petition to Buhari through the office of the Secretary to the Federation and the Chief of Staff to the President over the refusal of the heads of the agency to honor the invitation of the Parliament.

The lawmaker charged the President to compel the affected agencies to appear before it within seven days.

The Secretary to the Presidential Implementation Committee on the Sales of Federal Government landed property, Kola Adeyemi, however, confirmed that the property was sold and the proceeds deposited in a special account at the CBN created for that purpose.

He said the Committee never had access to the proceeds as the transaction was carried out in line with Presidential directives.

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