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House of Reps Summon Okonjo-Iweala Again Over 50 Questions

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The House of Representatives Committee on Finance chaired by Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin, has summoned Finance Minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to appear before it again on the 50 questions on the state of the economy. The House observed that the Minister’s earlier responses to the questions were grossly inadequate and not backed by sufficient evidence.
“Having gone through your responses, the committee noted that some questions were either not answered, partially answered, ignored outright or completely misunderstood.
“The Committee further noted glaring missing gaps in the responses, absence of supporting proofs of assertions and lack of relevant documents to back up the presentation as is the practice in any legislative oversight or investigation.
“Many data and statistics provided were inconsistent with subsequent information provided while answering other questions”, the memo addressed to the Minister read.
The House averred that as the coordinating Minister of the economy, Dr Okonjo-Iweala’s earlier responses
to the 50 questions were shallow at best.
“The committee is surprised at that because of its conviction that if all the questions raised are beyond the competence of the Minister of Finance, it is certainly not beyond the competence of the Coordinating Minister for the Economy considering the information you must have in your possession unless you say otherwise.
“In view of the above and ahead of the investigative hearing on the state of the economy, the committee is obliged to forward to you, additional observations and requests to be submitted to the committee not later than February 20, 2014.
“The committee has scheduled an investigative hearing to give you the opportunity to explain and defend your submission and to enable Nigerians to participate and make their contributions to this issue,” the memo from the House read.

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