Oke told his colleagues that NPA, NIMASA, NRC, RBDAS and NCS have been auctioning public property “at a ridiculous price” and without following due process.
He further said partial remittance or non-remittance of revenue realised from the auctioning of public property into a consolidated revenue fund is a breach of the provision of the constitution. The legislator said if the practice is not checked, it may affect the federal government’s quest to meet the rising demands for accelerated infrastructural developments.
The motion was adopted when it was put to a voice vote by Tajudeen Abbas, speaker of the house, who presided over planetary. The lawmakers, therefore resolved to set up an ad hoc committee to investigate the functioning of public property by the agencies between 2010 and 2022 to “unravel the extent of illegal auctioning of public property, and non-remittance of revenue realise into CRF” and report back to within four weeks for further legislative action.All rights reserved.
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