THE House of Representatives, yesterday, accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the Nigeria Customs Service and Accountant General to the Federation, AGF, of deliberate attempts to derail investigation into the N2 trillion worth of seized and recovered assets by the commission since its creation.
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The House had earlier last July, passed a resolution which mandated its committee on crugs, narcotics and financial crimes to carry out an investigative inquiry into the matter and report back within four weeks.
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The committee, headed by Jagaba Adams Jagaba ,PDP, Kaduna, had started the investigation last July when the speaker, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, directed that all committees' activities be suspended to allow members participate fully in the voting on constitution amendment process.
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But Jagaba in a statement said of the several stakeholders from who the committee requested information, EFCC, Nigeria Customs Service, Accountant General's Office and Real Estate Derivatives had continued to deliberately withhold from the committee the much needed information.
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He explained that it was in view of this development that he could categorically state that the National Assembly and, indeed, all Nigerians had been taken for granted.
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He said: "This is not only shocking and unfortunate but highly disappointing coming from an agency set up by an Act of the National Assembly to fight corruption."