The Senate has summoned the accounting officers of seven federal ministries, departments and agencies over their failure to justify their input in the N5.01tn loans proposed to fund the 2022 budget deficits.
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, while issuing the summons at the close of plenary, said if the MDAs failed to appear, the Senate would take appropriate and prompt actions against them.
He said the Senate would not condole any act of sabotage to the efforts of the Federal Government to secure the loans to fund infrastructure development that Nigeria desperately needed.
He said the ministries had been given one week to appear before the committee on loan and foreign debt.
He listed the ministries to include ministries of power, health, environment, women affairs, petroleum resources, water resources and the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure.
Lawan said, “There are ministries, departments and agencies of federal government that should have appeared before the Senate committee on Local and Foreign Loans to defend the debt request by the executive arm of government.
“These MDAs failed to appear. The Senate considers this attitude as a sabotage to the effort of the Federal Government to secure the loans and fund the infrastructure development that this country desperately needs.
“Already, the National Assembly has approved the loan requests but there is need for clarifications.
“We are giving them just one week to appear before the committee on lean and foreign debts and if they fail to appear, we’ll take appropriate and prompt action because this Senate will not condone any sabotage to the effort of this administration.”
