By Mercy Aikoye
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petiton has issued a warrant of the arrest on the Governor of Central Bank (CBN), Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Mrs. Oluwatoyin Madein and 17 others for refusing to appear before them in respect of their operations.
This followed the adoption of a motion by a member of the Committee from Bayelsa state, Hon. Fred Agbedi, at the committee’s hearing, who noted that the warrant had become inevitable following the attitude of the invitees while expressing his displeasure that the CEOs had been invited four times, but failed to respond.
The Lawmaker added that the CEOs should be brought before the committee by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) through a warrant of arrest from the Speaker, Hon. Tajudeen Abbas.
In his ruling, Chairman of the committee, Hon. Micheal Irom, said the IGP should ensure the CEOs were brought before the committee on December 14.
Earlier, the petitioner, Mr. Fidelis Uzonwane, explained that the petition was anchored on the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) report of 2021.
He said the report was a summary of the transactions in the oil and gas industry for 2021, which NEITI could be challenged on.
Some of those to be arrested were the Chief Executive Officer, National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), that of Ethiop Eastern Exploration and Production Company Ltd, as well as the CEO of the Western Africa Exploration and Production.
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