The House of Representatives
ad-hoc panel probing the management of the Treasury Single Account, TSA, on
Tuesday threatened to issue a warrant of arrest on the Managing Director of
First Bank Nigeria, Adesola Adeduntan, for allegedly refusing to honour several
of its invitations to provide answers to questions regarding the bank’s role in
the policy.
The panel, headed by Hon.
Abubakar Nuhu Damburam (APC, Kano), was furious that despite sending several
letters to the bank seeking the presence of the MD as the chief accounting
officer to appear and explain the various TSA accounts operated by his bank, he
has constantly ignored them.
The Reps members, therefore,
issued a summon on the bank chief, asking Adeduntan to either appear by next
Tuesday or face arrest as a warrant would be issued against him.
Members of the panel had reasoned
that First Bank has something to hide which explains why the CEO is hell-bent
on ignoring them.
They vowed to invoke relevant
sections of the constitution to force compliance as they will not tolerate
situations where corporate bodies operating in the country would behave the way
they like and at the same time want to make money from government.
They cited relevant sections of
the constitution, which they said give them powers to summon any person in the
country as well as investigate anomalies with a view to encouraging good
governance and exposing waste.
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