{"id":40967,"date":"2021-04-12T17:48:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=40967"},"modified":"2021-04-12T17:29:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:29:40","slug":"house-committee-summons-igp-over-1bn-arms-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/house-committee-summons-igp-over-1bn-arms-deal","title":{"rendered":"House Committee summons IGP over $1bn arms deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The House of Representatives ad hoc committee, investigating the $1billion arms procurement deals has summoned the Acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Akali Baba.<\/p>\n<p>Olaide Akinremi (APC) led committee summoned the newly appointed IGP on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Operation, Sanusi Lemu had appeared before the committee. He apologized for the inability of the IGP to attend the session.<\/p>\n<p>Lemu said the IGP was unable to attend because he is still \u201cnew to the office.\u201d He noted that it \u201cwas not deliberate to ignore the invitation of the lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to apologize for the inability of the IGP to be here, it was not deliberate. He is still new in the office. That is why he was not chance to be here,\u201d DIG Lemu said at the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to launch the investigation followed a motion of urgent public importance moved by Bede Eke.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the arms procurement is causing a showdown between the committee and officials of Central Bank of Nigeria and the military.<\/p>\n<p>Both the military and the CBN have failed to appear before the committee. However, they are due to appear before the committee today.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee in its 22nd of March sitting summoned the Chief of Army Staff, Ibrahim Attairu and CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that the two officials were billed to appear On the 7th of April, 2020. They, however, failed to appear before the committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The House of Representatives ad hoc committee, investigating the $1billion arms procurement deals has summoned the Acting Inspector General of Police, Usman Akali Baba. Olaide Akinremi (APC) led committee summoned the newly appointed IGP on Tuesday. The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Operation, Sanusi Lemu had appeared before the committee. He apologized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":40966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,300,254],"class_list":["post-40967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-igp","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>House Committee summons IGP over $1bn arms deal - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The House of Representatives ad hoc committee, investigating the $1billion arms procurement deals has summoned the Actin ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/house-committee-summons-igp-over-1bn-arms-deal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"House Committee summons IGP over $1bn arms deal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The House of Representatives ad hoc committee, investigating the $1billion arms procurement deals has summoned the Actin ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/house-committee-summons-igp-over-1bn-arms-deal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-12T17:48:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-6074835ea5f2e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"781\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/house-committee-summons-igp-over-1bn-arms-deal#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/house-committee-summons-igp-over-1bn-arms-deal\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"House Committee summons IGP over $1bn arms deal\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-12T17:48:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/house-committee-summons-igp-over-1bn-arms-deal\"},\"wordCount\":252,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/house-committee-summons-igp-over-1bn-arms-deal#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/img-6074835ea5f2e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"IGP\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/house-committee-summons-igp-over-1bn-arms-deal#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/house-committee-summons-igp-over-1bn-arms-deal\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/house-committee-summons-igp-over-1bn-arms-deal\",\"name\":\"House Committee summons IGP over $1bn arms deal - 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