Meanwhile, The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Representatives has directed that all private airlines that received 4 billion naira COVID-19 relief funds designated to support the aviation sector to refund the allocated funds to the federal government treasury, if they fail to give justifiable evidence of how the money was judiciously spent in seven days.
The Committee being chaired by Rep. Bamidele Salam gave the directive at the resumed investigative hearing on the alleged mismanagement of the COVID-19 intervention funds by the Ministries Departments and Agencies MDAs of the Federal Government and others who benefited from the funds.
The Committee lamented that despite appearing before it, several of the airlines and industry stakeholders failed to provide satisfactory explanations regarding the allocation and expenditure of the funds.
