The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has directed the Ministry of Industries, Trade, and Investment to refund the 75 billion Naira allocated as COVID-19 intervention funds to government coffers.

Similarly, the committee asked the Federal Ministry of Health to refund the 10 billion Naira meant for vaccine production, saying the money was not expended.

The two ministries were given the directives during an investigative hearing on the expenditure of the COVID-19 intervention fund by ministries, departments, agencies, and MDAs.

The committee lamented that the Ministry of Industries was invited three times but failed to honour the invitations.

Bassey Akiba, who adopted the motion, asked the committee to compel the Ministry to refund the money it received during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in the country.