The Senate has summoned the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, ZAINAB AHMED, and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, GODWIN EMEFIELE, to brief it on measures to curb tax evasion by expatriates.

The decision followed a motion by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, Senator GERSHOM BASSET.

Also summoned were heads of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,  the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, the heads of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, the Nigerian Export-Import Bank, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, among other relevant institutions.

It mandated its committees on Finance; Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes; Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions to investigate illicit financial flows.

The panels are also expected to appraise of the FIRS’ current framework for tracing, identifying, preventing and sanctioning cross-border tax evasion and other illicit financial outflows.