By Levinus Nwabughiogu, ABUJA
The House of Representatives, Wednesday, alleged that 71 million Nigerians still operate their banks’ accounts without identification, just as it noted that trillions of Naira belonging to the Federal Government were being held by commercial banks.
The House, therefore, set up an ad hoc committee, headed by Unyime Idem (PDP, Akwa Ibom), to investigate the unremitted funds as well as infractions by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
The resolution followed the consideration of a motion presented by Dachung Bagos from Plateau State at the plenary.
In his motion, Bagos noted about 45.85 million bank accounts were yet to be linked after the introduction of the Bank Verification Number (BVN) by CBN in 2014.
