December 20, (THEWILL) – The Senate Committee on Finance has mandated the Inspector General of Police to compel the appearance of the Registrar General of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Garba Lawal, before it within 24 hours.
The development followed the failure of the CAC Registrar General to honour a third invitation by the Senate Committee.
Chairman of the Committee, Sani Musa, expressed anger when the Registrar General shunned the committee’s invitation to provide an explanation for discrepancies in accounts provided in the 2024 budget of the Commission.
“With all sense of humility, the Corporate Affairs Registrar General has disregarded this committee. The Corporate Affairs Commission was present when we treated MTEF/FSP and the Director of Finance was here. We saw discrepancies and we told you to go and come back.
“You have your bookkeepers; you have your records and we asked you to go and tidy up and report back, but you never did.
“I have cause to tell the Secretariat to send you a letter; you appear here. When you came, you said the Registrar General just felt ill. I excused you expecting you are going to come back with the documents requested.
“You know what the financial regulation of this country is. I had cause to tell the Committee Secretariat to write you again and you are here without the Registrar General.
“You are the custodian of finances for the Corporate Affairs Commission and there are discrepancies. How many entities are registered in this country? How many? How much were you reporting there and you are taking us with levity?”
“I am invoking Section 89(2), mandating the Inspector General of Police to compel the appearance of the Registrar General of the Corporate Affairs Commission before the Senate Committee on Finance within 24 hours,” he said.
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