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Senate threatens to issue arrest warrants against some heads of FG agencies

Abiola Odutola by Abiola Odutola
September 20, 2021
in Politics, Spotlight
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The Senate has said it may issue arrest warrants against heads of Federal Government agencies that failed to appear before it to defend the queries raised against them by the Auditor General for the Federation in its 2016, 2017 and 2018 reports.

This was disclosed by the Chairman, Senate Public Accounts Committee, Senator Matthew Urhoghide, on Friday while addressing journalists in Abuja.

According to him, the Senate had already decided that it would not attend to the budget proposals of the erring agencies when working on the 2022 Appropriation Bill.

He identified the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency and the Nigerian Ports Authority as major culprits.

READ: Senate orders all MDAs to remit 100% of IGR to Consolidated Revenue Fund

What the senator said

The Senator said the current accounting officers who were not in office when the infractions occurred had no reason to be afraid because the panel would hold the particular occupant who committed the atrocity liable while passing its verdict.

He said, “We have concluded deliberations on the 2015 report of the Auditor General and Senate had taken actions based on the submissions that we made at the Public Accounts Committee.

“Concerning the agencies that did not appear to defend the query issued against them by the OAuGF, we have their list and we have reported them to the Senate.

READ: Senate accuses CBN, NNPC, others of non-remittance to Consolidated Revenue Fund

“The Senate in its strength and job description as an institution, will take the necessary steps that will lead to sanctions against the affected agencies of government.

“The agencies cannot be a law to themselves, part of the steps being taken by the Senate is not to attend to their appropriation this year.”

He further said, “For 2016, 2017 and 2018 AuGF reports that we are considering concurrently now, the erring agencies including the NPA, NIMASA, among others, we are going to make sure that they appear.

“It might border on embarrassing the accounting officers of those agencies. We are ready to issue warrants of arrest against them because I know the Senate President will be well disposed to signing a warrant of arrest particularly against the agencies found guilty of same offence when we were considering the 2015 report.

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“If they want to repeat the same thing when we are considering the 2016 report, we won’t tolerate that. They cannot be spending government money and they would not want to account for it.

“We are carrying out a constitutional role as contained in section 85 (6&7). It is a provision that the agencies, including foreign missions, must account for the public funds that they spend.

“If they still refuse to come, it means that they have something to hide. They must be dragged out to give account.

“The erring agencies in their best interest should appear before the SPAC to answer queries that had been raised by the OAuGF.”

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