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The Senate on Thursday warned that heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies and Government-Owned Enterprises who fail to honour invitations from its committees would henceforth face constitutional and legislative sanctions.
The resolution followed a debate sparked by the repeated refusal of several MDAs and GOEs to appear before the Senate Committee on Finance chaired by Senator Sani Musa.
Following the debate, the Senate, presided over by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, unanimously adopted a series of resolutions directing all agencies of government to comply with invitations from its committees or face sanctions in line with the Constitution and other extant laws.
Leading the debate, Senator Abdul Ningi said the National Assembly could no longer continue pleading with government agencies to perform what he described as their constitutional obligation.
