Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dennis Otuaro, has a 72-hour deadline to appear before House Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over ₦26bn audit queries or face sanction
The House of Representatives has given the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Dr. Dennis Otuaro, a 72-hour deadline to appear before its Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over audit queries totalling more than ₦26 billion.
He is expected to face the committee on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, failing which lawmakers say they will invoke a warrant of arrest to compel his appearance.
The ultimatum follows Otuaro’s failure to honour six consecutive invitations from the committee. During Thursday’s hearing on December 4, Rep. Dominic Okafor moved a motion for a warrant of arrest, seconded by Rep. Aliyu Bappa Missau, and unanimously adopted by the panel.
According to the Auditor-General’s report under review, the Presidential Amnesty Programme is accused of multiple financial violations, including:
Breach of the Federal Government’s e-payment policy on expenditures totalling ₦17.6 billion; payment of ₦3.6 billion without internal audit checks; disbursement of ₦1.5 billion for tuition fees without supporting documents; circumvention of procurement processes; issuance of cash advances exceeding approved thresholds amounting to ₦1.2 billion, among other discrepancies.
Chairman of the committee, Rep Bamidele Salam, insisted that Otuaro must appear with other senior officials of the programme to respond to the audit concerns.
“He must come before this committee on Tuesday to defend these queries,” Salam stressed.
