You’ve no power investigate us, NAF tells Reps
The House of Representatives and the Nigerian Airforce on Monday disagreed on the legality of the House investigating the activities of the force and its subsidiaries for wrong doing.
The House had at it’s plenary in in January mandated its committees on Airforce and Justice to investigate the petition written by Blue Boulevard accusing the Airforce of using force against them and reneging in a contractual agreement they had to build a shopping mall at the Mami market in Port Harcourt.
He insisted that if they allow the petitioner to state their case, it would mean that they have accepted that the Chairman of the House Committee on Air force, Rep Shehu Koko should preside over the investigation. He claimed that the letter from the House Committee on Airforce requesting the Chief of Air Staff to respond to the petition by the Blue Boulevard was written several days before the House resolution which was a clear indication that he will not be fair to the Air Force.He also claimed that the since the petition was not about fraud, but about a contractual agreement between two parties, it is out of the purview of the House to investigate and should have been done before the law court.
When asked to explain what section one and two of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, he said he was not able to explain the sections. While saying the House has the power to carry out investigation, he said they were not particular about who heads the investigation, stressing that the company has already secured a court judgment against the Airforce.
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