Fresh disagreements have emerged within the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the operations and circumstances surrounding the purported Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, delaying the drafting of the panel’s final report.
The committee, chaired by Plateau State lawmaker, Yusuf Gagdi, has been sitting for more than a month and is currently putting finishing touches to its report ahead of its presentation to the House when plenary resumes.
Sunday PUNCH reports that the committee questioned several senior government officials, including the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Didi Walson-Jack; Director of Banking Services at the Central Bank of Nigeria, Hamisu Abdullahi; Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Tanimu Yakubu; and the Head of the Federal Projects Financial Management Department in the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Joshua Luka, among others.
The officials were questioned over their respective roles in processes through which the purported agency appeared to gain recognition within government.
The agencies told the committee that they acted on information and documents presented to them by Adeniyi Adeyemi, who had presented himself as the Director-General of the organisation.
