By Christiana Ekpa
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Asset and Special Duties has issued a 7-day ultimatum to the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) to submit all relevant documents on all current Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) in the corporation.
The committee made the demand in Abuja at a public hearing on the need investigate and assess the performance of PPP programmes and concession.
The Chairman of the committee, Rep. Ademorin Kuye (APC-Lagos state) said that the ultimatum became necessary following failure of the corporation to submit the documents as earlier requested.
He said that all documents on all agreements related to each asset of PPP and programmes, concessions, lease agreements with commencement date should be submitted.
Kuye said that documents on evidence of remittances to the Special Concession Account, income profile from PPPs/Concession/Lease, and specific achievements recorded by the period under reference should be tendered.
The chairman asked the management to ender documents and evidence of advertisement of PPPs/concession/lease and expression of interests on the leases.
According to him, the committee is also interested in document on the challenges, problems,constraints of mandate implementation and recommendations for improvement
Kuye said that a sworn affidavit attesting that the documents/information submitted are true should also be attached.
He said that the committee would like to see the budget performance of the corporation from 2021 to date.
According to him, they need to see items budgeted for and the level of implementation on all projects in the forth coming oversight.
The chairman also demanded a detailed report from the NRC on a trending video which showed yet-to-be identified individual carting away assets from one of the train stations in the country.
Kuye said that information available to the committee suggests that such criminal activities were allegedly carried out in Niger, Bauchi Nasarawa, Lagos among other states of the country.
