“We have other issues like the Ministerial (names) we are going to work on and the amnesty we will soon work on. We have the budget that is more important, we have INEC, we have PIB, we have so many things and I think it is a mixture of all that that should guide us. So, don’t let us overheat the polity.”
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The Senate also, following a motion by Sen. Dino Melaye, directed its Committee on Finance to probe both agencies for withholding the said amount.
This new fine, contained in the amendment to Utility Charges Commission (Amendment) Act 2004, passed by the Senate yesterday, implied 4,900 per cent increase from the existing N10,000 fine in the original Act.