The Home of Representatives will start an investigative listening to on Wednesday, January 17, into alleged mismanagement of the COVID-19 intervention funds from 2020 to 2022.
This sequence of hearings, organized by the Home Public Accounts Committee, will run from Wednesday, January 17 to Friday, January 26 on the Nationwide Meeting Complicated, Abuja.
The Chairman of the Public Account Committee, Bamidele Salami, had in an earlier communication invited 59 ministries, departments and businesses of the Federal Authorities to seem for the train.
These MDAs grouped into eight embody the Accountant-Basic of the Federation, the Nigerian Export Promotion Council Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, the Nigerian Airspace Administration Company, the Nigerian Meteorological Company and the Rural Electrification Company.
Others embody the Nigeria Heart for Illness Management, Nationwide Institute for Pharmaceutical Analysis and Growth, Nationwide Obstetric Fistula Centre, Abakaliki, in addition to a number of Federal Medical Facilities, Federal College Educating Hospitals and Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospitals throughout the nation .
The Nationwide Fee for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Individuals, the Nationwide Directorate of Employment, the Federal Street Upkeep Company, a number of federal ministries and numerous safety businesses such because the Nigerian Air Pressure, the Nigerian Police and the Federal Hearth Service represent the opposite invited establishments.
In a press release issued on Tuesday, Home Spokesperson Akin Rotimi stated every MDA “should be represented by its Chief Govt Officer, the Head of Finance, the Head of Procurement and officers educated in regards to the expenditures of the COVID-19 Intervention funds. ”
The committee, throughout its listening to, famous with nice disdain that some MDAs have did not honor its earlier publication and seem earlier than the committee, warning that “failure to adjust to this civil invitation might depart the committee with no different choice than to resolve the problems raised towards the committee. your workplace/medical services.”
The Home of Representatives had in October 2023 determined to research the administration of the funds following a movement sponsored by Zakaria Dauda Nyampa on “Investigation into alleged mismanagement of COVID-19 intervention funds from 2020 to 2022.” on the ground of the home.
In his presentation, the lawmaker recalled that COVID-19 emerged in 2019 as a significant pandemic affecting households, companies and economies of the nations of the world, noting {that a} report by the Auditor Basic of the Federation and different sources revealed that important funds for COVID-19 palliatives and worldwide donations had been diverted and unaccounted for by a number of MDAs.
