Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Trade and Investment Minister Olusegun Aganga and the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko, yesterday shunned the Senate panel investigating the handling of the Export Expansion Grant Scheme designed to motivate cotton producers.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Investment and former Minister of Finance, Senator Esther Nenadi Usman (PDP, Kaduna South), said the trio had been summoned three times following a petition by members of the Cotton Association of Nigeria over the charges they were being asked to pay for the exportation of their commodities. The committee resolved to send them letters of invitation again and threatened to order their arrest should they fail to appear before it next Monday.
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Daily Trust