The
House of Representatives has asked one of President Muhammadu Buhari's
top Minister along with another top government official to resign for
dragging Nigerians into recession.
Minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun, and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele
Two of President Muhammadu Buhari's top officials have been asked
to resign for mismanaging the country's economy. A House of
Representatives panel made the call yesterday after minister of finance,
Kemi Adeosun, and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin
Emefiele failed to appear before it.
The top government officials were supposed to appear before the
panel set up to investigate how the N700 billion bail-out funds given to
some state governments by the federal government, Chairman of the
ad-hoc committee, Rep Sadiq Ibrahim (APC, Adamawa) made the call
yesterday following failure of the duo to personally appear at the
committee’s session.
He also called for the resignation of the Director General of the Debt Management Office (DMO), Abraham Nwankwo.
Adeosun did not send any representative, but Emefiele delegated an
executive director in the apex bank, Umar Abubakar, to represent him,
while the DG of DMO was represented by Oladele Afolabi. But the
lawmakers rejected the representatives.
“The attitudes of these top government officials show who is
mismanaging the economy of the country. Nigerians should rise up and
call for their resignation immediately,” the lawmaker said.
“If it is to bring virement, they would rush down, but now that
they are to come and explain to Nigerians how the bail-out fund running
into over N700bn was disbursed, they are sending representatives; they
are only interested in borrowing. This has to stop.” the lawmaker added.
Other members of the committee who spoke at the session lamented
the absence of the trio, describing it as unacceptable in view of the
quantum of money given out to states as bail-out, Dailytrust reported.
The committee therefore directed the three officials to physically
appear before it and provide all relevant documents on the bailout
funds.
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