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Reps threaten permanent secretary with arrest over abandoned road project in Kaduna
The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee has given the Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Works a five-day ultimatum to honour its invitation or risk arrest.
The committee has invited the permanent secretary for questioning over the abandoned road project in Kaduna State, valued at ₦1.46 billion.
The 115-kilometre road was awarded to Jam-Jam Dynamic Platform Limited on October 5, 2022, with a completion time frame of 12 months.
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The committee chairman, Bamidele Salam, announced the deadline after the permanent secretary failed to appear before the lawmakers on Thursday.
The PM had previously snubbed the committee’s invitations on two other occasions.
The chairman threatened that the lawmakers would issue a warrant of arrest against the PM if he failed to appear before the lawmakers on October 29.
Salam said: “Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives has issued a five-day ultimatum to the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Works to show cause why a warrant of arrest should not be issued against him by the House for failure to respond either in writing or to appear before this constitutional committee to explain why a sum of N1.4 billion was paid to Jam-Jam Dynamic platform Limited for the construction of Gidanwanya-Guaran, Dutse-Waman, Ravi-Saminaka-Kano Road awarded on the 5th October 2022 to be completed within 12 months with full payment received without execution of the project.”
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