A committee in the House of Representatives has issued a warrant of arrest on the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Olayemi Cardoso, the Accountant General of the Federation, Mrs Oluwatoyin Madein and 17 others for refusing to appear before it to answer questions on their operations.
This followed the adoption of a motion by Rep Fred Agbedi at the Committee on Public Petitions’ hearing on Tuesday.
Moving the motion, Agbedi said that the arrest warrant had become inevitable following the attitude of the invitees. He said that the parliament worked with time and the CEOs had been invited four times, but failed to respond.
He said that the CEOs should be brought to appear before the committee by the Inspector General of Police through a warrant of arrest after due diligence by the Speaker, Rep Tajudeen Abbas. In his ruling, the Chairman of the Committee, Rep Micheal Irom, said that the IG should ensure the CEOs were brought before the committee on December 14.
