The House of
Representatives Aminu Waziri Tambuwal yesterday signed a warrant of arrest
on heads of 16 revenue collecting agencies over their refusal to appear before
the House Committee on Finance on non-remittance of N1.3 trillion revenue.
Committee chairman Rep. Abdulmumin Jibrin (PDP,
Kano) had moved a motion on matters of urgent public importance informing the
House of failure of affected agencies to honour their several invitations and
provide details of their Internally Generated Revenues (IGR) as part of the
2013 budget revenue frame work.
Tambuwal then
directed Jibrin to write to him and list the erring agencies.
A copy of the
arrest warrant signed by the Speaker indicated that CBN governor Sanusi Lamido
Sanusi, NNPC Group Managing Director Engr. Andrew Yakubu are among those
listed.
To face arrest also
include heads of AMCON, FCT, FAAN, Pension Commission of Nigeria, NIMASA, NPA,
among others.
Meanwhile, the
police head-quarters in Abuja said no warrant was transmitted to it from the
National Assembly for the arrest of anybody, police spokesman said.