The House of Representatives, Wednesday, resolved to investigate the possible existence of the controversial Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), and its alleged funding to the tune of N1.3 billion in the 2026 budget.
To this end, the relevant committees have been mandated to invite the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning and the director-general of the Budget Office of the Federation to explain the verification procedures applied before new entities are admitted into the federal budget.
The resolution was sequel to a motion under matters of urgent public importance on Wednesday by Rep Yusuf Gagdi.
He warned that the incident exposed serious weaknesses in the country’s appropriation system and raised concerns that other fictitious agencies could have slipped into previous budgets unnoticed.
Concerned on how the body reportedly got about N1.3 billion vote as a non-existent federal agency in the 2026 appropriation framework, he described it as an “embarrassing development”, posing significant threat to the integrity of Nigeria’s budget process.