Five senior members of staff of the National Assembly have been interrogated by the Senate Joint Committee investigating the alleged disappearance of the 2016 budget document from the upper chamber on Wednesday
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, and another member of the committee, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, revealed that five senior civil servants had been questioned over the issue.
It was gathered that some senior employees in the offices of the Clerk to the National Assembly, Clerk to the Senate, Senate Leader, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate) and Rules and Business, were quizzed.
Anyanwu said the Joint Senate Committee, comprising his own and that of Appropriation, would submit their report on Thursday (today).
He added that the report would be discussed at either in closed session or in plenary, depending on the disposition of the Senate leadership.
He said, “We have concluded our investigation and the report will be submitted for everybody to see and we will debate it.”
Also, Nwaoboshi confirmed that the document was missing, saying his committee was on the trail of those connected with the document.
He said, “The document is missing; we want to find out. We have interviewed some people so far this morning. We are continuing in the next few minutes with our investigation.
“We are almost through with it. We will conclude in the next few hours because we have already known what is happening.”