Hopes
for an early release of the report of the House of Representatives Ad
Hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Regime Monitoring were dashed on Thursday,
because of ‘conflicting responses’ from government agencies and
companies involved in the importation of petroleum products.
The House had passed a resolution on January 8,
mandating the ad hoc committee to investigate the application of subsidy
funds by the Federal Government and produce a report within three
weeks.
Chairman of the committee, Farouk Lawan, who briefed
the House on the progress of the investigation on Thursday, explained
that the committee had initially planned to lay the report on Tuesday,
April 3, after members would have used the weekend to fine-tune it.
But he said that inconsistencies in the responses from respondents delayed the job.
“On almost every aspect of the fuel subsidy application, we got conflicting responses.
“This made the ad hoc committee to take a longer time to do a meticulous work on the report,” he said.
Lawan, therefore, asked for more time to enable members to clean up the report, which he said was ‘almost ready’.
He said, “The report is almost ready and we plan to
submit it next week. I appeal to Nigerians to allow us clean up the
draft of the report.
“We want to tender a report that Nigerians will be proud of.”
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