IDP fund: You’ve questions to answer, Reps tell Osinbajo

The House of Representatives’ ad hoc Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness has dismissed the denial by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo that he is not culpable in the alleged N33bn embezzlement  in a presidential intervention programme for the North-East.

Chairman of the committee, Mr Ali Isa (APC, Gombe State), who addressed journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, insisted that Osinbajo, being the chairman of the programme and the one who issued directives leading to the release of funds, had questions to answer.

The House of Representatives had indicted the Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency, Mr Mustapha Maihaja, over alleged embezzlement of funds in excess of N33bn under his watch.

Osinbajo was also indicted for allegedly approving N5.8bn North-East Intervention Fund, which the House claimed was illegal.

Osinbajo had dismissed the allegation, stating that the government was obliged to make an emergency response to the humanitarian crisis in the geopolitical zone.