The Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission -EFCC and the Independent Corrupt Practices -ICP and Other Related Offences Commission to invite two former Permanent Secretaries in the Federal Ministry of Labour, Williams Alo and Yerima Tafa, for questioning over alleged financial mismanagement of N3.2bn while in office.
The committee, chaired by Bamidele Salam, who represents Ede North/Ede South/Egbedore/Ejigbo Federal Constituency in Osun State, expressed concern over the persistent disregard for its summons by Ministries, Departments, and Agencies.
It decried the growing trend of government bodies refusing to honour invitations to respond to audit queries issued by the Auditor-General for the Federation.According to Salam, the committee has written to the ministry seven times, yet none of the invitations was honoured.
He added that the ministry also failed to provide the relevant documents required to clear them of the 32 audit queries raised in the 2020 audit report.