The Nigerian Senate has threatened to issue warrant of arrest on some critical revenue generating agencies of government for undermining its summon to answer queries raised by the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation, with regards to financial transactions.
The Senate Committee on Public Accounts, chaired by Senator Aliyu Ahmed Wadada speaking at a press conference in Abuja, expressed shock regarding how some billions of naira left government coffers, which the affected agencies needed to account in line with legislative provisions that empowers the parliament to investigate.
Wadada said Auditor General’s report which was humbly submitted to the Committee unearths rots in some agencies of government, that it takes only irresponsible parliament not to conduct public investigations. He was appalled at how these agencies conspired together and have taken decision not to honour invitations by the Senate Committee.
According to Wadada, the Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria Customs Service, Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL top the lists of agencies that had snubbed the invitations from the Committee, while he threatened that the Senate would report heads of these agencies to President Bola Ahmed after another magnanimous opportunities.
According to him, there were correspondences between the Committee and Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy and the Debt Management Office, DMO due to faulty documents which they were not ready to answer. The lawmaker further listed Nigeria Satellite Communications Limited, which has been invited nine times, but failed to appear, Nigeria Police Force, Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, among the agencies that failed to appear before the committee.
