The House of Representatives, Thursday, has given a warrant for the arrest of the Managing Director of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dakuku Peterside.
The House Ad -Hoc Panel investigating the status of Treasury Single Account, TSA, resolved to issue the warrant against Peterside for consistently failing to appear before it.
The committee, which is headed Abubakar Nuhu Danburam (APC, Kano), at a session in Abuja said Peterside, who was a member of the House during the 7th Assembly, has been taking them for a ride.
He noted that Peterside has received several letters to appear and clear the air on the remittances made by NIMASA to the TSA, but has failed to sponded to the letters.
According to him, being a former member of the House, Peterside, also an APC chieftain, was well abreast of all the legislative procedures, but he ignored all that for reasons best known to him.
“What we’ve done so far is that a motion has been moved that NIMASA DG has been failing to appear before us despite several letters. He is a former member of this House, and he knows how the procedure is.
“We’ll be presenting a request before the plenary to ask that an arrest warrant be issued against him.
“As for bank CEOs that aren’t here, we have discussed with some of them.
“We’ll give them another date. But if you’re not a CEO here, you can take your leave,” he said.
