The House of Representatives has
authorized an arrest warrant for Yusuf Kolo, a former employee of the Federal Character Commission (FCC), after he repeatedly neglected to attend sessions before the ad hoc committee currently investigating job racketeering within various ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs).

Yusuf Gagdi, chairman of the committee, took this step after Kolo missed two opportunities to provide insights on accusations concerning his involvement in job racketeering during his tenure at the FCC.
“For Haruna Kolo, the position of this committee is that he would lose his freedom. We will issue a warrant of arrest in respect of Haruna Kolo and compel security agencies to present him before this committee at any given period if he is so arrested. So this committee would communicate officially to the various security agencies.”

The chairman of the committee had on Wednesday, questioned why Kolo failed to honour the invitation to appear before the panel.

“I also don’t know why Kolo is not coming back to appear before this committee. He seems to have absconded. I will sign a letter to AMCON to produce Kolo on Thursday.

“It is better he listens to us unless he is acting a script and selling lies to us. He should come so we can interact with him. We owe everybody the duty of care.

“We need him by 10 a.m tomorrow; the clerk of the committee should call AMCON on the phone and tell them to produce Kolo or do they know what Kolo is hiding?” Gagdi said.