The Senate Committee on Public Accounts, yesterday vowed to issue a warrant of arrest against heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies...
The Senate Committee on Public Accounts, on Thursday vowed to issue a warrant of arrest against heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies over their failure to honour its invitation to answer audit queries against them.
The MDAs that have failed to honour the invitation of the Committee, according to Senator Urhoghide, include the Ministry of Information, Culture and National Orientation, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Ministry of Power, Ministry of Women Affairs, Ministry of Solid Minerals and the National Population Commission .
“But they have deliberately and irresponsibly failed to honour our invitation. Their failure to appear before this Committee amount to outright disobedience to constituted authority,” Urhoghide said.
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