Reps summon Minister, SON over unaudited accounts
The House of Representatives on Tuesday summoned the Minister of Industry, Trade and investment, Otumba Niyi Adebayo and the management of the Standards Organisation of Nigeria to appear before it on Frday, June 26, 2020 to explain why the agency’s account had not been audited in the past six years.
The House Committee on Public Account, which is the only constitutional committee in the House is, particularly, not happy with the management of the agency for refusing to appear before it and explain why it had failed to render accounts from 2014 to 2019 as required by law.The committee adopted a motion to summon the Minister, the Director-General and entire management of the SON at an investigative hearing on Tuesday in Abuja.
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