 Festus Keamel apologised to the Senate this evening over his failure to honor invitations by the relevant legislative committee overseeing the Ministry of Labor and Productivity, where he had served as a minister on the Muhammad Bari administration. This followed a rather session of the Senate during his ministerial screening early in the day, where Senator Dalyntine Woukoucha from Abbey Central accused Keamel of disrespecting the National Assembly and accusing the last Assembly of being corrupt. Let me start with an resolved apology. My apologies without reservation is total apology for the misunderstanding that arose between us in my committee at that time at the night assembly. I apologize without reservation, total apology, and I pray that as I have done privately to my committee members at that time, headed by like an originally my own speech senator, his three senator, Akwashiki, after which in the last two years of my stay as Minister of State Labor, we had a fantastic relationship, we were visiting ourselves at home. We had a relationship outside the office, it was as good as that. I had done that to him personally and to the committee before, and I do that to the entire Senate at this time. Maybe it was as a result of the lack of knowledge of the fact that this matter had long been resolved between us and the members of that committee. Subsequently, there were so many hearings, budget defence and all that we attended on a very convivial atmosphere. So the apologies without reservation, at all, I apologize. The only two things I just need to say before I go because we are before the world, one or two things. One is that regarding that program, because when it's Nigerians here in Figo, their ears go up. Wait, what big figure as we mentioned, no, regarding that program, every single payment and I insisted to the past president that it must come from the central bank directly to the accounts of the people who were nominated to receive those funds. And so we as ministers, both ministers in the ministry and the head of the agency at that time that we supervised, never saw one cobble. It was straight, what we needed to do was to generate the list and pass to the CBN and the CBN paid directly from the CBN account to those individual account. These rich colleagues, emotion is on the floor that in view of the apology tender by this former minister who had earlier been cleared by this august assembly that he be allowed to take leave of the senate. Those who are in favour of this motion say aye. Aye. Those who are against the name, the ayes have it. It was recorded. Don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.