The House of Representatives on Wednesday summoned the immediate past Postmaster General of Nigeria, Mr Bisi Adegbuyi over the backlog of unaudited accounts of the Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) from 2014 to 2019.

It also invited the Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Prof. James Momoh and his management to appear before it for failing to submit audited accounts to the Office of Auditor General of the Federation (OAGF).

Chairman of the House Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Hon. Wole Oke disclosed this when the management of NIPOST, led by the Postmaster General, Dr. Ismail Adebayo Adewusi appeared before it at the resumed public hearing on refusal of non-treasury funded and partially funded agencies to render their audited accounts covering the period 2014 till date to the Auditor-General of the Federation.

The committee decided to invite the former Postmaster General following the submission of the current occupant, Dr. Adebayo Adewusi that he just resumed office recently and was making efforts to clear the backlog of unaudited reports.

Oke said the submission of Adewusi was “unacceptable” and insisted that the immediate past Postmaster General must appear before it to account for his stewardship.

According to the chairman: “This is strange, this is not a private entity but a public one in which several billions of naira are being budgeted for every year. I think the former NIPOST Postmaster General must appear before this committee to account for his stewardship

“He owes Nigerians full explanations on how he expended their money, this is not a banana republic where anything goes,” he said.

Also on Wednesday, the committee frowned at the inability of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to submit its audited accounts to the Auditor General of the Federation as at when due, describing it as “a breach of the constitution for a regulatory agency set by law not to be accountable for the funds collected from the public”. (New Telegraph)