We are alarmed at the incident at the Public Hearing of the House of Representatives Committee probing the fraud allegations at the NDDC, which held today, Thursday, July 16, where the Acting Managing Director, Prof Keme Pondei, walked out on members of...
We are alarmed at the incident at the Public Hearing of the House of Representatives Committee probing the fraud allegations at the NDDC, which held today, Thursday, July 16, where the Acting Managing Director, Prof Keme Pondei, walked out on members of the committee. This is unprecedented in the history of this country that the Head of an MDA would walk out on a legislative committee carrying out its oversight functions.
What Pondei and the IMC are trying to do is to sit in judgement over their own case. They are trying to avoid having to account in public for the humongous expenditure they have incurred as outlined by the Office of the Accountant General and the CBN who appeared before the Committee the day before. This cannot be allowed in any sane society, as the Committee rightly stated.
Our position is that Pondei and the IMC have more than enough outlets to report any lawmaker or official who they think has committed a crime to the police and the anti-graft agencies. They have no right to take the laws into their hands and decide not to appear before a duly constituted committee of the National Assembly.
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