The Rivers State House of Assembly has issued a warrant of arrest on the Vice-Chancellor of PAMO University of Medical Sciences (PUMS) owned by former Governor Peter Odili.
It was gathered that the Assembly took the decision following failures of the VC to appear before ad-hoc committee established by the House to investigate about N28bn reportedly paid to the university by the state government for scholarships.
The committee headed by the Deputy Speaker, Dumle Maol, had in its last sitting insisted that the VC must appear in person to justify the utilisation of the funds.
He maintained that the appearance was necessary because the VC being the university’s chief accounting officer was required to speak directly to financial documents presented by the state Ministries of Finance and Education.
Maol had compaluned that PAMO failed to appear when other stakeholders, including the Accountant-General, Commissioner for Finance, Commissioner for Education and their Permanent Secretaries, honoured the committee’s invitation.
A statement signed on Friday by Martins Wachukwu, the Special Assistant to the Speaker, Martin Amaewhule, recovened on Friday to deliberating on the report of the committee.
The lawmakers after deliberating on the report presented by Maol resolved to issue a warrant of arrest on the Vice-Chancellor in line with the recommendation of the committee.