The Area of Representatives has slated Tuesday, July 26, 2024, for wondering of six Branch Council Chairmen of the Federal Capital Area on their expenditures.
They might face the Area Committee on FCT and Ancillary Issues then failing to proclaim a number of invites prolonged to them.
The Chairman of the Committee, Frederick Agbedi, said this on Tuesday all over a gathering attended through the Minister of Situation for FCT, Mariya Mahmud and the six council chairmen.
The lawmaker chided the council bosses for treating parliamentary invites with contempt.
He mentioned, “The committee is not witch-hunting anyone, but anyone who is in public service must be accountable.”
The Minister apologised for now not with the ability to catch up with earlier invites, pledging on the other hand, that in the future, she is going to paintings with the committee.
In a similar fashion, the Chairman, Kwali Branch Council, Danladi Chia, apologised by and for his colleagues, promising to cooperate with the panel going forward.
In keeping with a agenda equipped through the Clerk of the Committee, Matthew Okureka, Abaji Branch Council would seem earlier than the Committee on Tuesday, July 23, 2024; Bwari on Wednesday, July 24, 202 and Gwagwalada on Thursday, July 25, 2024.
Additionally, the Kuje Branch Council would face the Committee on Tuesday, July 30, 2024; Kwali on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, and AMAC on Thursday, August 1, 2024.
The hearings are anticipated to be held through 1 pm at the allotted days.
Agbedi mentioned the Committee needed to adjourn the investigative listening to until then pace following the dying of Ekene Adams, a lawmaker
Recall that the Committee had endmost Tuesday, threatened to restrain the budgetary allocation to the FCT, owing to the failure of the council chairmen to proclaim its summons.