The House of Rep­resentatives Com­mittee on Public Accounts has or­dered the Executive Sec­retary of National Human Rights Commission, Prof. Bem Angwe, to appear before it today in connec­tion with a N724 million service wide vote,  alleg­edly misapplied by the commission.
Chairman of the Com­mittee, Solomon Olamile­kan (APC, Lagos), said the committee would order the arrest of Angwe if he failed to honour the summon to­day.
He said the Commis­sion’s boss had failed to honour previous invitations, reiterating that the commit­tee would declare him miss­ing if he failed to turn up .
Speaking during an inter­active session with officials of NHRC last weekend, he said: “We have invited your executive secretary to appear before us but he has deliberately refused to show up, this committee is giving him from now till next week Monday (today) to show up or we will de­clare him wanted. All we need to hear from him is how N724m service wide vote was spent.”
At the meeting, the com­mission’s Accountant, Mr. Balarabe Sambo, explained to the committee members why his boss failed to ap­pear before the committee but his excuse was rejected by members who insisted that his boss must appear today.
Meanwhile, officials of the University of Ibadan and the University of Port Harcourt have been given three weeks to present all relevant documents per­taining to how the service wide votes allocated to them were expended.
The required documents must include names of contractors, amounts ex­pended, their certificate of incorporation and bank statements.

Reps summon NHRC scribe over missing N724m