Following his refusal to appear before
the Senate Committee on Finance to explain discrepancies noticed in the 2024 budget of the Corporate Affairs Commission, it’s registerar Garba Lawal, has be given 24 hours to appear before the committee.
The Senate Committee on finance chairman Sani Musa, urged the Inspector General of Police to produce the CAC Registrar General who according the Committee, has shunned an invitation to appear for the third time.
“With all sense of humility, the Corporate Affairs Registrar General has disregarded this committee,” Senator Sani Musa said during hearing Wednesday.
“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.”
