The panel chairman, Ahmed
Abu, stated this in Abuja, on Thursday, after some service providers and
vendors yesterday, some stakeholders refused to turn up.
The House of
Representatives ad-hoc panel has threatened to issue an arrest warrant against
Chairman of the defunct Etisalat Nigeria, Akeem Bello-Osagie and the Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of Airtel Nigeria, for failing to appear before it to
answer charges relating to their operations.
Abu said the panel had
invited Bello-Osagie and the Airtel CEO on several occasions to answer
questions on alleged tax evasion by the then Etisalat and Airtel but that they
refused to honour the invitations.
He said that the attitude
of the duo was unacceptable and that if they fail to appear on a yet-to-be
announced date, an arrest warrant would be issued against them.
The committee chairman, who
also berated the officials of 9Mobile for the absence of their CEO, said the
panel would invoke relevant constitutional provisions in dealing with the
organisations involved.
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