The House of Representatives Committee, investigating abandoned Federal Government projects with a view to completing them has solicited the support of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to achieve the mandate of the committee.
The Chairman of the committee, Rep. Kuye Ademorin (APC-Lagos), made the call at a committee meeting on Tuesday in Abuja.
Ademorin recalled that the committee was constituted on March 17, with a mandate to investigate the status, use and current state of all Federal Government property in every part of the federation.
He said the committee was to look into all abandoned Federal Government projects, identify the cause of the abandonment and proffer solutions through recovery, completion or prosecution.
“We are, therefore, soliciting the cooperation of the MDAs concerned to avail us comprehensive lists of the abandoned property, be they land, building, aircraft, ships or goods to enable the committee discharge its mandate.
“We are equally calling on corporate organisations and individuals already occupying and making use of these property to do the needful by liaising with the committee to put necessary machinery in motion to return them to the rightful owner, the Federal Government.”
The lawmaker said that successful recovery of the property would provide needed funds to cushion the impact of the economic crunch the country was currently facing because of COVID- 19.
“We are not oblivious of surreptitious and hurried attempts to dispose those property as a way of throwing spanner in the works of this committee.
The lawmaker said that the oath taken by members of the National Assembly to uphold the constitution, included the discharge of duties creditably, diligently and without fear of favour.
He said that the committee, empowered by the House of Representatives would discharge its functions in accordance with its mandate and pursuant to Section 88 and 89 of the Constitution, which conferred investigative powers on parliament
