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Reps Summon Customs Boss Over Remittances
The Comptroller-General of Customs, Alhaji Abdullahi Inde Dikko, has been summoned by the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts over remittances to the federation account between 2007and 2010.
The committee is currently investigating remittances by revenue generating agencies.
The House members were working on queries bordering on 2007 to 2010 remittances to the federation account.
The House Committee branded the customs service as a lawless service agency.
According to the committee, “The Comptroller-General, had ignored six invitations, must address some queries regarding remittances that the service ought to have made” .
The committee has however fixed Wednesday, April 10, as the date Dikko must appear before it, noting that failing to respond to sundry issues raised by the· office of the Auditor-General of the federation may not be welcome.
The members of the committee took time to lambast the CGC for his arrogance and insubordination. The chairman of the committee, Hon. Solomon Olanilekan, expressed dismay at what he called consistent failure of the customs boss to honour their invitation.
It was gathered that the customs CG traveled to Ghana, but however delegated Deputy Comptroller- General (DG), John Atte, to represent him at the scheduled meeting, a development that angered the House committee members.
A member of the committee said, “we are not happy, the CG cannot be above board. That he is controlling revenue and in charge of too much money does not make him above board”.
The House of Representatives are also probing the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of the N5.6 billion, which the corporation spent yearly on oil pipeline protection in violation of the NSCDC Act.
The House resolution was taken through a motion moved by Hon. Robinson Uwak on the contract awarded by the NNPC for pipeline protection, a role that is statutorily allocated to the Nigerian security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
The three commuters comprises of Petroleum Resources (Down stream) Interior and National Security and Intelligence were mandated to investigate the matter and report to the whole House within four weeks.
According to Hon. Robinson Uwak, the NNPC spent N5.6 billion yearly on the. protection of oil pipelines in violation of the NSCDC Act, which empowers the corps to protect the pipelines in section 3(1) of the NSCDC it stated, “the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps shall maintains 24 hours surveillance over infrastructure, sites and projects of the federal, states and local government.
The NSCDC has the power to arrest without a warrant, detain, investigate and institute legal proceedings against any person who is reasonably suspected to have committed an offence under this Act, or is involved in any power transmission lines or, oil pipelines, Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) cables equipment, water board pipes and equipment vandalism.
Hon Uwak stated that the huge sums of money spent in servicing the pipeline contract could be invested in funding the NSCDC to enable it carry out its statutory functions, rather than giving it to a private firm in violation of the law”.
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