The House of Representatives has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) to submit relevant documents on its current public-private partnership (PPP) arrangements.
The Chairman of the House Committee on Public Asset and Special Duties, Ademorin Kuye, issued the ultimatum at a public hearing on the need to investigate and assess the performances of PPP programmes and concession on Thursday in Abuja.
He said the ultimatum had become necessary following the corporation’s failure to submit the documents as earlier requested by the lawmakers.
Kuye said the documents on all the agreements relating to each asset of PPP and programmes, concessions, and lease agreements, with commencement dates, should be submitted by the NRC.
He also demanded from the NRC a detailed report on a trending video that showed a yet-to-be-identified individual carting away the corporation’s assets from one of the train stations in the country.
“Failure to submit these documents and reports on or before Dec. 11, 2024, would force the committee to invoke its constitutional powers against the NRC,” he said.
In his remark, the acting Managing Director of NRC, Mr. Benjamin Iloanusi, apologised to the committee for failing to submit the required documents earlier.
Iloanusi blamed the failure on miscommunication, saying they had submitted documents in accordance with the earlier letter received by the management of the corporation.
He, however, appealed for time to enable the corporation to submit the detailed documents requested by the committee.