Car scandal: The House of reps
to probe the honorable minister for Aviation, Stella Oduah on $1.6 Million
Armoured car scandal.
According to PM News, the house
on Tuesday mandated its committee on aviation to probe Stella Oduah.
Read more here after the cut….
Nigeria’s House of
Representative on Tuesday mandated its Committee on Aviation to probe the $1.6
million armoured car scandal involving Princess Stella Oduah, the Minister of
Aviation.
The probe followed a motion by
All Progressives Congress (APC) legislator, Samson Osagie, brought to the floor
under matters of National importance.
“Over the past week, the nation
has been inundated with the news of the purchase of $1.6m BMW bullet proof cars
by the National Civil Aviation Authority for the Minister of Aviation,” Osagie
said while moving the motion.
He added that the purchase of
the BMW cars at the princely sum of $1.6million were unnecessary as it amounted
to wasteful spending:
“Given the poverty and
unemployment ravaging our dear nation and its people, it will be absurd,
unthinkable and indeed unpatriotic for an agency of government to connive with
its political head to incur such expenditure simply for the comfort and safety
of one public officer.”
The legislator said also added
that the controversies generated by the car purchase have cast doubts over the
sincerity of Jonathan’s administration to the fight against corruption.
The House subsequently mandated
its committee on Aviation to investigate the matter and report back within one
week with specific terms of reference that included the following:
-To find out whether it was correct that the purchase was made and whether the
purchase was authorized by any appropriation law. They committee will also
determine if the NCAA has been complying with Fiscal Responsibilities Act on
the remittance of its internally Generated Revenue.
- The committee will also find out whether the minister is entitled to such
vehicle under any law in Nigeria and whether the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission and all anti- corruption agencies are not bound to investigate and
prosecute all those involved if no appropriation law approved the purchase.
- The committee is also to find out whether (even if any appropriation law approved it) the President can retain the services of the minister and all those involved in the matter
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