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The House of Representatives Committee connected Foreign Affairs has invited the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar, and Heads of Missions for a fact-finding workout implicit the utilisation of appropriated funds by the overseas missions successful 2025.
The committee, successful a missive dated July 24, 2025, and signed by its chairman, Oluwole Oke, successful enactment with Sections 88 and 89 of the 1999 Constitution (As amended), demanded elaborate records of utilisations of the funds by the assorted agencies.
The Oke-led Committee had commenced an probe into allegations of a declaration ungraded involving the alleged mismanagement of $2m for the renovation of Nigeria’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations successful New York.
The missive inviting Tuggar and Heads of Missions work successful part, “The Missions are required to furnish the pursuing documents: approved fund of the missions from 2024-2025; fund show of the missions for the supra years; grounds of peculiar interventions released to the missions and their applications betwixt 2018-2025 and unit nominal rotation for some location and section staff.
“The Honourable Minister is kindly requested to bring the contented of this missive to each Heads of Missions.”
Another letter, dated July 3, 2025, signed by the Director of Funds connected behalf of the Accountant General of the Federation, revealed that the President Bola Tinubu-led medication released a full of $54 cardinal to cater to the needs of the nation’s 103 Embassies and High Commissions.
While overhead outgo got an allocation of $46.14m, idiosyncratic outgo accounted for $9.58m, with overhead allocated $282,829.
Speaking with journalists successful Abuja connected Wednesday, Oke commended President Tinubu for the intervention, adjacent arsenic helium charged Tuggar and Heads of the assorted missions to supply the Committee with elaborate records of the disbursement of the funds.
“We commend the President for intervening, and we are thankful for his committedness to revive the missions. His involution successful 2025 volition spell a agelong mode successful projecting a large representation for our country.
“We impulse the missions to travel distant and pass Nigerians done their representatives successful parliament however the involution funds person been utilised. This volition guarantee transparency and accountability, which are 2 basal requirements for bully governance,” Oke said.
According to him, the committee was not connected a witch-hunt ngo but “is simply responding to the request to marque governance number for Nigeria and Nigerians.”
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