 The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee has ordered health and industry ministries to reform 10 billion and 75 billion Naira respectively to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic effects in 2020. The committee also gave the Rural Electrification Agency 24 hours to provide necessary document. The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee is seeking to recover unutilized COVID-19 funds released to special ministries during the pandemic to mitigate its impacts on Nigerians. The committee's urgent affected government ministries and agencies to refund all-budgeted special intervention funds aiming for transparency and accountability in its investigation. Anyone who fails to appear without justifiable reason will leave us with no other option than to resolve the issues in investigation against them. It should be assumed that they do not have any justification for the expenditure of the monies released to them on COVID-19 and this is very very very important for those who haven't come and haven't sent in any communication to show that they had justifiable reason for not coming. We will be taking a position that those issues in investigation are resolved against them. The committee was unable to agree on the allocation of funds by the health, rural electrification and industry trade and investment ministries present. I had it here. I was actually waiting for us to finish so that I will tell you. I've had it ever since that we have 10 billion. You have a submission here. This is your submission. Yes. This is your documents. Yes. We are in a house that gives you documents. We don't it's the oral testimony cannot do but whatever is not included here and in in the whole of your document there is no where you indicate or indicated that you have a 10 billion error sitting online somewhere that has not been used. I think just a moment. Yeah you should take responsibility for that and then since the auditor general raised this issue in maybe 2022 or there about till now there has not been any formal response by the nation from the federal minister of health to the auditor general for the federation on this money. I think some people need to really really so some people didn't need to ask a lot of questions on this. The committee desatisfied with the use of funds issued a directive for the ministry of health to reform the 10 billion error release for local COVID-19 vaccine production directing the funds towards older pressing needs. Former permanent secretary and the current permanent secretary affected by this motion to reform the sum of 75 billion error back to the federal government as COVID-19 intervention fund which as far as we are concerned has not been expended. So those in favor of the motion please say aye. Aye. Thus against you say nay. The ayes have it. The federal ministry of industry trade and investment the permanent secretary is hereby ordered to cost a refund of its own 75 billion error back to the federation account within seven days and present documents to indicate such a refund thank you hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates