CEOs Of Glo, Indomie, Dana & Others Risk Arrest

The Senate on Wednesday gave executives of Glo Mobile and other firms allegedly involved in N30 trillion federal government revenue leakage till Thursday to appear before it for defence.

The other companies given the deadline by the Senate Joint Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff and Marine Transport, probing the revenue loss are British American Tobacco Company, CCEC Nigeria Ltd and Dana Group.

Also affected are African Wire and Allied Ltd, Admiral Overseas Nigeria Ltd., Aarti Steel Nigeria Ltd., Gagsel International, Fries Land Capina, Etco Nigeria Ltd and Encounter Ltd.

They also include Edic Chemicals and Allied Distributors Ltd, Don Climax Group and De United Foods, makers of Indomie noodles.

The Chairman of the committee, Hope Uzodinma, gave the ultimatum at an investigative meeting with some of the firms in Abuja.

He decried the failure of the firms to honour the committee’s invitation to Wednesday’s meeting, saying it was disrespect to the National Assembly and would not be tolerated.

Mr. Uzodinma said that of the 30 firms invited between Tuesday and Wednesday, only 14 appeared before members of the committee.

According to him, the chief executive officers are expected to cut short whatever engagement they have to honour the invitation in view of the magnitude of the investigation.

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