The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions
has issued a warrant of arrest on the Central Bank Governor, Mr Olayemi Cardoso,
the Accountant General of the Federation, Mrs Oluwatoyin Madein and 17 others
for refusing to appear before it to answer questions on their operations.
This followed the adoption of a motion by Rep Fred Agbedi
(PDP-Bayelsa) at the committee’s hearing on Tuesday.
Moving the motion, Agbedi said that the arrest warrant had
become inevitable following the attitude of the invitees.
He said that the parliament worked with time and the CEOs had been invited four times, but failed to respond.
He said that the CEOs should be brought to appear before the
committee by the Inspector General of Police through a warrant of arrest after
due diligence by the Speaker, Rep Tajudeen Abbas.
In his ruling, the Chairman of the Committee, Rep Micheal
Irom (APC-Cross River), said that the IG should ensure the CEOs were brought
before the committee on December 14.
Earlier, the petitioner, Mr Fidelis Uzowanem, said that the
petition was anchored on the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative (NEITI) report of 2021.
“We took up the challenge to examine the report and
discovered that what NEITI put together is a report is only consolidation of
fraud that has been going on in the oil and gas industry.
“It dates back to 2016 because was have been following and we
put up a petition to this committee to examine what has happened.
“The 2024 budget of 27.5 trillion that has been proposed can
be confidently funded from the recoverable amount that we identified in the
NEITI report.
“It is basically a concealment of illegal transactions that
took place in NNPCL; they have been in a sink with some oil companies where
some companies that did not produce crude were paid cash core, an amount paid
for crude oil production,” he said.
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