Senate Committee on Public Accounts had on Wednesday ordered the issuance of a warrant to compel Kyari to appear before it over unresolved audit queries involving N210 trillion contained in the company’s audited accounts between 2017 and 2023.

The senate on Thursday distanced itself from the warrant of arrest issued against Mele Kyari, former group chief executive officer, GCEO, of the

The Senate resolved that no committee shall purport to issue, authorise or execute a warrant except in strict compliance with the provisions of the Legislative Houses (Powers and Privileges) Act and with the approval of the Senate president.

Nigerian security agencies have been ordered to produce former NNPC chief Mele Kyari “dead or alive”. The video of the directive is now trending.

The upper chamber held that the power to authorise such a threat rests solely with the presiding officer of the Senate, in line with its rules and constitutional provisions.