There were indications on Wednesday that members of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts had come under intense pressure to tread softly on their ongoing investigation into the alleged financial excesses of the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.
It was also learnt in Abuja that Alison-Madueke chartered a third jet for her use, besides the two already in the records of the committee.
The Solomon Olamilekan-led committee is investigating the expenditure of N10bn on a Challenger 850 chartered and maintained for the minister’s use.
A source close to the Public Accounts committee, who confided in our correspondent, said, “From available information, “there are three aircraft the minister charters for her trips within and outside the country. “What they were doing was to alternate the planes,”
The source, who did not want his name in print, was however quick to add that the committee’s assignment was only to investigate and not to indict anybody.
“Well, the assignment before the committee is an investigation. Nobody has been accused of any wrongdoing for now, but we have to establish all these allegations,” he said.
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