* Awaits ICPC findings before taking legislative action
Sunday Aborisade in Abuja
The Senate on Wednesday stepped down a motion seeking a full-scale investigation into the controversial N1.303 billion budgetary allocation to the purported Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), choosing instead to await the outcome of an investigation already ordered by President Bola Tinubu.
The decision came after Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin, who presided over plenary, ruled that the upper chamber should refrain from debating the matter since the Presidency had already directed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to investigate the controversy.
The motion, sponsored by Senator Suleiman Kawu (APC, Kano South), sought an urgent probe into the budgetary allocation, operations and legal status of the PFIPC, amid allegations that the council is a non-existent government agency.
