The Senate, on Tuesday, gave the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy a 48-hour ultimatum to account for the N13.9 billion it collected from service-wide votes from 2017 to 2021.
Uroghide said, “Series of letters have been written to your ministry since September last year for required explanations on how the service -wide votes were expended without prompt response, only for you to come here today along with the DFA of the ministry to beg for more time which would not be granted beyond Thursday this week because the committee must submit report to the Senate on how your ministry and many of the other MDAs are running away from explanations on spendings made from the...
He added, “Accountability is key as far as public account or fund is concerned, the very purpose for which this committee was constitutionally created.
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