A mild drama played out at the first plenary session of the House of Representatives yesterday as a motion to investigate the alleged non-remittance of funds by Ministries, Department and Agencies was stifled by members of the parliament elected on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

A motion listed on the Order Paper as fifth motion of the day and sponsored by Chike Okafor (All Progressives Congress Imo State) alleged that Federal Government agencies in recent years have mismanaged issues of  tax remittance and engaged in unapproved spending of funds which should have been paid into the Federation Account.

Okafor was stopped in his tracks not long after he began reading by two  PDP members who raised point of order based on  argument that the section of the 1999 constitution which he premised his motion was faulty.

Speaker Yakubu Dogara had called on Okafor to move his motion and lead the debate on it. In the motion, Okafor sought to bring  to the attention of the parliament the allegations that the sum of $4 billion was paid as taxes and dividends by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNGL) between 2009 and 2014 without the sum reflecting in the account of the government during the Goodluck Jonathan administration.

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