The National Pension Commission on Saturday explained why its Director-General, Aisha Dahir-Umar, did not appear before the House of Representatives Committee on Finance on Thursday.
The Commission’s Head of Corporate Communications Department, Abdulqadir Dahiru, said this in a statement in Lagos.
Dahiru stated that the Director-General was absent because she was out of town attending an official engagement.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that PenCom was scheduled to defend its 2021/2022 Budget and present the 2023-2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework/Fiscal Strategy Paper to the House on Thursday.
At the hearing, the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Finance, Hon. Saidu Abdullahi, frowned at the absence of the commission’s Director-General.
The statement by dehire said: “It is pertinent to note that the DG’s absence was because she was out of town attending an official engagement.
“However, the Commissioner for Finance, the Director and Head of Accounts and the Deputy Director and Head of Financial Planning represented her, which is the usual practice whenever the director-general was unavailable.
“The director-general takes invitations from the National Assembly seriously and ensures that she attends personally except when the exigencies of her office make it impossible.
“In which case the relevant commissioner and management staff of the commission represents her.”
The statement further stated that the management of PenCom was pleased with the observation by the House committee on the quality and comprehensiveness of the reports the commission submitted to it.
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