The House of Representatives has resolved to probe Customs duty remitted by commercial banks to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from January 2014 till date. The move is to ascertain their veracity or otherwise.
The resolution followed a motion moved in that respect by Jerry Alagbaoso and 11 others.The chief sponsor alleged that banks now delayed remittances despite the implementation of an e-payment system.
He said: “The House recalls that nearly all the service providers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) handed over their Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) facilities to the service on December 1, 2013 and since then, there has been news that commercial banks had remitted billions of naira in duty to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) which has generated a lot of reactions in the public domain.”
Consequently, Speaker Yakubu Dogara mandated the Committee on Customs and Excise to carry out the assignment and report back to the chamber within eight weeks for further legislative action.Also the chamber’s Ad hoc Committee investigating over N6 trillion revenue leakages in the country’s oil sector yesterday grilled Agip Nigeria Oil Limited over alleged unremitted royalties and penalties arising from gas flaring in the Niger Delta region.
The panel also gave the company till next Monday to tender relevant documents to reconcile its transactions with the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) ahead of an investigative hearing on November 15.The panels were also asked to review the operations of the Special Task Force (STF) in the city.The resolution followed the adoption of a motion by Istifanus Dung Gyang (PDP, Plateau) and Edward Pwajok (APC, Plateau).
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