Senate’ll probe NNPC, others indicted by Auditor General – Spokesperson

The Senate on Tuesday assured Nigerians that the latest report of the Auditor General for the Federation, Mr. Samuel Ukura, which was submitted to the Clerk to the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikashuwa, in Abuja on Monday, would not be swept under the carpet like similar ones in the past.

Ukura had after presenting the voluminous document to the Clerk lamented that none of the annual audit reports he had been submitting to the National Assembly since 1999 had seen the light of day.

He regretted that the documents were left to gather dust by the public accounts committees of both chambers of the National Assembly whose members refused to consider the document for necessary legislative actions by the lawmakers in plenary.

But the Senate spokesperson assured Nigerians in an interview in his office that all the management of all the relevant agencies indicted in the N3.3tn scam would be investigated by the Public Accounts Committee of the Senate.

He said, “The eighth Senate has chosen to be different as we have stated several times since we came on board and for which we came up with our legislative agenda to make us different from the past because we are in the season and period of change and we want to seriously key in to that.

“Along that line, you can see the courage that we have to make some differences from what has obtained in the past and o this note, we have passed reports of some committees like the Treasury Single Account, which is a classic example.

“Through that exercise, we were able to save the country N7bn. There are similar works that have been done. We want to say that since we have chosen to be different, we urge Nigerians to wait and see what we will make out of the investigation (Auditor General’s report).