The House of Representative has issued a 7-day ultimatum to the Programme Coordinator of the HydroCarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HyPREP) to appear over N400billion in the 2021 and 2024 audit report from the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation.
The Public Accounts Committee of the House issued the summon following the adoption of a resolution to that effect at a Public hearing of the Committee on Monday.
Speaking at the hearing, Chairman the Committee, Bamidele Salam, noted that the ultimatum serves as the final warning after HyPREP failed to appear, despite four different invitations.
He said, “failure to appear before the Committee by Monday 12th October, 2026, the House will be compelled to invoke its power and compel appearance by the accounting officer of the agency.”
The Committee has also invitated the Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Ogoni Remediation Trust Fund.
According to the audited reports presented before the Committee HyPREP failed to submit its audited account to the Office of the Auditor General from 2017 to 2021.
Other queries include: Irregular award of Contracts and non-deduction of Statutory Taxes of $2.1million; Payment of N986million Consultancy Without Execution; Irregular Payment of N315million for Training; and Payment of N7.2billion for poorly executed contracts among others.
