After shunning the investigative hearing by the House
committee on recovered loots on Monday, the Attorney General, Abubakar Malami
and the Accountant General, Ahmed Idris, appeared before the committee on
Tuesday.
The investigative hearing is on the status of all recovered
assets from 2002-2019.
The duo had sent representatives yesterday, however, they
were re-summoned by the committee.
At the hearing, Mr Malami was accused of accepting money
from the recovered loot to fund the budget of his office.
Malami had earlier claimed that no dime was given to his
office from the asset recovery account.
The attorney general was visibly dumbfounded when he was
confronted with a bank statement from the CBN.
The Chairman of the Committee, Adejoro Adeogun explained
that it is unconstitutional to spend money from the recovered assets and that
money can only be spent from the consolidated revenue account
Meanwhile, the accountant general bailed out Malami by
claiming that under the TSA, consolidated, asset recovery accounts and other
revenue accounts are now linked.
But Ahmed was unable to answer questions on the missing
money.
The lawmakers observed discrepancies between the record of
the OAGF and the bank statement obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Oladapo Olarewaju, a member of the committee faulted the
accountant general for the discrepancies, “If there is any discrepancy, there
must be a timeline. To say that discrepancy is normal, I do not agree with
you.”
At this point, the accountant general had to request more
time to reconcile his records.
Mr Ahmed was given till Thursday to reconcile his records
and revert to the lawmakers.
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