Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, minister of Finance, has been asked by the House of Representatives to submit the full version of the forensic audit report on the allegedly unremitted $20 billion the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, into the Federation Account. Femi Gbajabiamila, Minority Leader, last Wednesday asked the finance minister for the report. “Mr. Speaker- Emeka Ihedioha, presiding, we request the Clerk of the House to formally write the Minister to produce that report to every member of this House. She has not produced the report, irrespective of the standing resolution of this House. We want to have the full report, not the snippets that they have been flying about,” Gbajabiamila said. The House endorsed his submission and directed the minister a second time to comply.

Solomon Olamilekan, chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, told reporters shortly after the House rose that the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation only presented a highly-condensed version of the report to the public. He recalled that in the condensed version, the NNPC was directed to remit a minimum of $1.4 billion into the Federation Account.

He said that, as the committee overseeing public accounts, PAC was duty-bound to ensure that the minister produced the report. He ordered Okonjo-Iweala to submit the report not later than one week from Wednesday, February 25. “The PAC, cognisant of the provisions of the Constitution (1999), and empowered by the resolution, hereby requests that the full report on the forensic audit by PWC, which must include the initial raft report, the executive summary, management /internal control letters, should be forwarded to the National Assembly not later than one week from today; Wednesday,” he added.