The House of Representatives on Wednesday queried the National Examinations Council (NECO) for failure to remit N636,778,000 to the Federal Government in 2019.
The House issued the query at the resumed investigative hearing into alleged 30 billion dollars annual revenue leakages, on Wednesday.
The House also directed National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Industrial Training Fund, National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) and Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), which failed to show up at the hearing, should appear on Thursday unfailingly.
Chairman House Committee on Finance, Hon. James Faleke, grilled the Acting Registrar of NECO, Ebikibina Ogborodi and other top executives of the examination body.
Ogborodi, while ddressing the lawmakers, said te agency had an operating surplus of N1,278, 462,493 of which it was to remit 80 percent (N1,022, 769,994) to the government, but only N385,991,627 was remitted, due to money being owe the agency by some states.
“The balance is because some state governments who did the examinations are yet to pay. Zamfara was the highest debtor with N1, 022,234,000. Others are Adamawa (N281, 455, 500), Kano (N240, 043, 000), Gombe (N7, 214, 150), Borno (N40,027,675) and Niger (N234,453,157),” he said.
Ogborodi said the examination body had written to relevant authorities to help with the recovery of the money.
Faleke expressed dissatisfaction with Ogborodi response and threatened that the House would write the Accountant General of the Federal to block the account of the examination body, but only make money available to them to conduct examinations.
The Committee told the officials of NECO to come back to the House in two weeks with all relevant documents of transactions.
