The House of Representatives has given the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF) Alhaji Ahmed Idris up to Monday, 15th June to appear before it to defend matters connected with the COVID-19 funding.
Chairman, Committee on Public Account (PAC), Wole Oke (PDP – Osun) who issued the directive on Monday, following the failure of the AGF to appear before the committee, said a bench warrant of his arrest would ordered if he failed to appear again.
The AGF was invited to defend the amount spent on COVID-19 pandemic response before an investigative panel of the lower Chambers.
The lawmakers said that the new notice of appearance would be the last to be issued on him to appear, failure of which the committee would invoke the relevant sections of the Constitution for his arrest.
They warned him not to “disrespecting the parliament” and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“He must appear here on June 15 or we shall issue a warrant of arrest on him”, Oke warned.
He recalled that Idris had been “asked many times to appear and defend financial issues arising from the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation but he is running away”.
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