The House
of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee, investigating alleged fraudulent
practices in the collection and management of non-oil revenue remittances by
MDAs, has threatened to issue a warrant of arrest on the Chairman of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, if he fails to
appear before the Committee, on Tuesday, to account for the revenue collected
and remitted to the Federation Account.
The Committee had, on Thursday,
walked out representatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA,
and National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control, NAFDAC, because
their Directors-General were absent at a meeting in the National
Assembly.
Expressing
his dissatisfaction with the absence of the DGs of the two agencies, the
Chairman of the Ad-Hoc Committee, Rep Chike John Okafor, said some
government agencies treat the National Assembly with disrespect especially in
honouring invitations during the course of oversight functions.
Okafor
said that if the EFCC Chairman fails to appear on Tuesday to give account of
the money the commission collected on behalf of the Federal Government and how
much had been remitted to the coffers of government, the Committee would have
no other option than to issue a warrant of arrest on him.
He
condemned the absence of the DGs of NDLEA and NAFDAC, who sent representatives,
as they were said to be having a meeting in the office of the National Security
Adviser, NSA, wondering if the NSA by law was more important than the National
Assembly.
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