Nigeria’s Senate has run out of patience.
On Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Public Accounts ordered the arrest of Mele Kyari, the former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, after he failed, for the ninth time, to appear before lawmakers probing alleged unaccounted funds of N210 trillion linked to the national oil company’s operations between 2017 and 2023.
Committee Chairman Senator Ibrahim Dankwambo, representing Gombe North, put the motion to a voice vote. The room voted. And then he gave the order that every Nigerian watching this case had been waiting to hear.