Reps allege plot to hamper probe of EFCC’s seized assets

The House had after passing a resolution earlier this year mandated its committee on drugs, narcotics and financial crimes to carry out an investigation into the matter and report back within four weeks.
The committee headed by Jagaba Adams Jagaba (PDP, Kaduna) had commenced the investigation sometime in July when Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal directed that all committees’ activities be suspended to allow members participate fully in the voting on constitution amendment process.
But Jagaba, in a statement during the weekend, said of the several stakeholders from whom the committee requested information, EFCC, Customs, office of the Accountant General and real estate derivatives “have continued to deliberately withhold from the committee the much needed information.”
He said: “It is in view of this development that I want to categorically state that the National Assembly and indeed all Nigerians have been taken for granted. This is not only shocking and unfortunate but highly disappointing coming from an agency set up by an Act of the National Assembly to fight corruption.”
Jagaba said the committee would not relent in its investigation and would not hesitate to invoke the powers conferred on it by the constitution to compel the agencies to comply.