The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, on Wednesday announced the constitution of 15 ad hoc committees to address a wide range of pressing national issues.
The speaker, during Wednesday’s plenary session, said the committees will investigate and oversee key issues, including illegal mining, border security, the mismanagement of oil spill clean-up funds in the Niger Delta, and flood management and response.
Others will focus on the implementation and oversight of the “Naira for Crude Oil” policy, preparedness for the single-use plastic ban, public health crises and emergencies, agricultural subsidy programmes, drug trafficking and abuse, and the mandatory national decarbonisation programme.
Also constituted were committees to examine the economic, regulatory, and security implications of cryptocurrency adoption and point-of-sale operations in Nigeria, the expenditure of all intervention funds on security and other intervention funds, as well as to investigate pre-shipment inspections of exports and the non-repatriation of crude oil proceeds.
The House will further investigate indiscriminate non-compliance with establishment circulars by ministries, departments, and government agencies, as well as the reasons behind the abandonment of federal roads in and out of Calabar, despite repeated budgetary allocations.
