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Publisher (F.BA)
February 24, 2020
The House of Representatives has summoned four ministers toappear before its House Committee on Public Account.
The Ministers are to answer questions on why they violatedextant laws on submission of audited accounts to the Office of the AuditorGeneral of the Federation.
The Ministers summoned are Osagie Ehanire; Sabo Nanono;Otunba Niyi Adebayo and Gbemisola Saraki.
The House also placed the Nigeria Institute of InternationalAffairs, NIIA, Lagos; Nigeria Environmental Standards and RegulationsEnforcement Agency; the Nigeria Investment Promotion Council; RadiographersRegistration Board; Inter-Country Centre for Oral Health, Root Crop ResearchInstitute, Umudike; Nigeria Natural Medicine Agency and the Lake Chad ResearchInstitute under status enquiry.
The agencies are to reappear before the House committee withtheir immediate past management teams, the annual budgets and their auditedaccounts covering the period under investigation.
The House is investigating what it called “deliberate andreckless refusal by non-treasury and partially-funded agencies to render theiraudited accounts covering the period from 2014 to 2018”.