The Senate yesterday summoned the accounting officers of seven federal ministries, departments and agencies over their failure to defend their input in the N5.01tn loans proposed to fund the 2022 budget deficits.
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, decried the non-appearance of the affected MDAs before the Senate Committee on Loans and Foreign Debts.
Lawan, while issuing the summons at the close of plenary, said if the MDAs failed to appear, the Senate would take appropriate and prompt actions against them.
He said the Senate would not condole any act of sabotage to the efforts of the Federal Government to secure the loans to fund infrastructure development that Nigeria desperately needed.
He said the ministries had been given one week to appear before the committee on loan and foreign debt.
He listed the ministries to include ministries of power, health, environment, women affairs, petroleum resources, water resources and the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure.
Meanwhile, the Senate has adjourned plenary to Nov 9, after it passed the 2022 Appropriation Bill for second reading.
Lawan, who announced the adjournment, said it was designed to enable various committees to conduct budget defence for the MDAs.
Lawn stated that the budget defence by the MDAs would begin on October 18.
