Ahmed had earlier furnished the committee on how the $325 million in ECA was depleted to $71.8 million.
Chairman of Senate Committee on Finance, Adeola Olamilekan, who demanded the identity of the lawyer during an interactive session with the AGF, said that the committee would want him to furnish members with the identity of the lawyer who collected $4 million from excess crude as consultancy fee.
He said that the ECA is an escrow account set-up by the Federal Government and into which the difference between the benchmark price of crude oil approved by the National Assembly and the actual sales price thereof in the world market is paid. The Federal Government in the 2020 budget signed by President Muhammadu Buhari proposed N2.465 trillion for capital expenditure.
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