The House of Representatives committee investigating the activities of the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council has directed the Inspector-General of Police, Olatunji Disu, to produce the organisation’s self-acclaimed Director-General, Adeyemi Adeniyi, before lawmakers by noon on Wednesday.
The directive was issued on Monday during the committee’s resumed investigative hearing at the National Assembly in Abuja.
A police officer representing the Inspector-General, Assistant Commissioner of Police Bashir Abdullahi, told the lawmakers that the police had previously investigated allegations against Adeniyi and filed an eight-count charge against him before the Federal High Court.
He said the suspect had been arrested and arraigned, but warned that disclosing sensitive details could interfere with the ongoing case.
The committee chairman, Yusuf Gagdi, however, insisted that Adeniyi’s appearance was necessary to clarify several issues and documents before the lawmakers.
Gagdi said, “This committee clearly needs the suspected DG to appear before this committee. People’s names are involved. People’s integrity are involved. Institutional names are involved. Institutional integrity is involved.”
He added that the appearance was no longer optional, as the committee needed Adeniyi to authenticate certain documents before concluding its investigation.
The committee is investigating how the purported council, which lawmakers say was not legally established, allegedly obtained office space at the Federal Secretariat Complex in Abuja and secured a budgetary provision of ₦1.32bn in the 2026 Appropriation Act.
The investigation followed allegations that Adeniyi falsely represented himself as the Director-General of both the Presidential Economic Advisory Council and the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council.
According to the police, a petition from the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President in October 2025 triggered investigations into the allegations.
The police also told the committee that Adeniyi was accused of using the purported agency to seek government accommodation, pursue approval to recruit about 300 workers, and lobby for a $1.3bn allocation in the 2026 budget.
During the hearing, lawmakers examined documents allegedly issued by government institutions and compared signatures on some of them with authentic correspondence.
When asked if the signatures matched, the police representative responded, “They are not the same.”
The revelation prompted Gagdi to raise concerns about the possible forgery of official government documents.
He said, “So, it is not only a letter that was suspected to be forged? We are dealing with documents that include what is said to be a forged Act of the National Assembly in an attempt to establish a fake agency.”
The committee chairman disclosed that investigators had identified about 29 documents allegedly forged in the names of various government offices, including the State House, the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the Ministry of Finance.
He said representatives of some of the affected institutions had appeared before the committee and denied authorising the documents attributed to their offices.
The committee subsequently directed its clerk to formally communicate its resolution to the Inspector-General of Police.
Gagdi declared, “The committee hereby resolves that the Inspector-General of Police of the Federal Republic of Nigeria do kindly present Mr Adeyemi on Wednesday by 12 noon. That is the ruling of the committee.”
The House committee said its investigation would continue independently, while avoiding actions that could compromise the police’s ongoing criminal investigation and court proceedings.
