Members of the house of
representatives says they will report government agencies that failed to honour
their invitation to President Muhammadu Buhari.
At its investigative hearing on
Wednesday, the house committee on public accounts said it will petition the
president requesting him to compel the agencies to honour its invitation.
The committee is investigating
the alleged sale of some national assets without due process.
Some of the agencies whose heads
were summoned but failed to appear before the lower legislative chamber of the
national assembly are the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the National Emergency Management Agency
(NEMA).
Also invited were the heads of
the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF), the Nigeria Port Authority (NPA) and the
Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE).
Wole Oke, chairman of the
committee, expressed displeasure over the non-appearance of the public
officials, and requested the panel’s clerk to forward a petition to the
president informing him of the development.
He said the petition should be
written through the office of the secretary to the government of the federation
(SGF), requesting the president to get the agencies to honour the invitation
within seven days.
Wednesday’s incident is the
latest of what appears to become a norm where heads of government ministries,
parastatals and agencies (MDAs) fail to appear before the federal lawmakers
when invited.
When such happens, the
legislators usually issue a warrant of arrest or turn to Buhari for his
intervention.
In 2019, a similar incident
played out between the lower legislative chamber and the service chiefs who
failed to honour an invitation when the national assembly was probing Nigeria’s
security challenges.
Femi Gbajabiamila, the speaker,
had threatened to report them to Buhari after which all the service chiefs
responded.
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