Nigerian Senate orders suspended SGF Lawal to appear Thursday

The Nigerian Senate has ordered suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, to appear before it on Thursday April 27 by 10:00 a.m.

Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in the North-East, Sen. Shehu Sani, made the disclosure on Wednesday,

The committee had invited Lawal to appear before it for a second time on March 15.
However, Lawal in a letter dated March 22, requested for a rescheduling of the meeting to a more appropriate time.
Recall that the Senate ad hoc committee, in an interim report, indicted Lawal in the award of contracts under the e Presidential Initiative on the North East (PINE).

While presenting the report to the Senate, Sani said that the committee discovered that some of the contracts were awarded to companies belonging to top government officials’ cronies and family members.
He explained that the committee found out that Rholavision Engineering Limited, a company in which Lawal was allegedly a director, was awarded consultancy contract.
The company’s major role, according to him, is the removal of invasive plant species in Yobe on March 8.