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86.
(1) The Auditor-General for the Federation
shall be appointed by the President on the recommendation
of the Federal Civil Service Commission subject
to confirmation by the Senate.
(2) The power to appoint persons to act in the
office of the Auditor-General shall vest in the
President.
(3) Except with the sanction of a resolution
of the Senate, no person shall act in the office
of the Auditor-General for a period exceeding
six months.
87.
(1) A person holding the office of the
Auditor-General for the Federation shall be removed
from office by the President acting on an address
supported by two-thirds majority of the Senate praying
that he be so removed for inability to discharge
the functions of his-office (whether arising from
infirmity of mind or body or any other cause) or
for misconduct.
(2) The Auditor-General shall not be removed
from office before such retiring age as may be
prescribed by law, save in accordance with the
provisions of this section.
88.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this
Constitution, each House of the National Assembly
shall have power by resolution published in its
journal or in the Official Gazette of the Government
of the Federation to direct or cause to be directed
investigation into -
(a) any matter or thing with respect
to which it has power to make laws, and
(b) the conduct of affairs of any person, authority,
ministry or government department charged, or
intended to be charged, with the duty of or
responsibility for -
(i) executing or administering laws
enacted by National Assembly, and
(ii) disbursing or administering moneys appropriated
or to be appropriated by the National Assembly.
(2) The powers conferred on the National Assembly
under the provisions of this section are exercisable
only for the purpose of enabling it to -
(a) make laws with respect to any
matter within its legislative competence and
correct any defects in existing laws; and
(b) expose corruption, inefficiency or waste
in the execution or administration of laws
within its legislative competence and in the
disbursement or administration of funds appropriated
by it.
89.
(1) For the purposes of any investigation
under section 88 of this Constitutional and subject
to the provisions thereof, the Senate or the House
of Representatives or a committee appointed in accordance
with section 62 of this Constitution shall have
power to -
(a) procure all such evidence, written
or oral, direct or circumstantial, as it may think
necessary or desirable, and examine all persons
as witnesses whose evidence may be material or
relevant to the subject matter;
(b) require such evidence to be given on oath;
(c) summon any person in Nigeria to give evidence
at any place or produce any document or other
thing in his possession or under his control,
and examine him as a witness and require him
to produce any document or other thing in his
possession or under his control, subject to
all just exceptions; and
(d) issue a warrant to compel the attendance
of any person who, after having been summoned
to attend, fails, refuses or neglects to do
so and does not excuse such failure, refusal
or neglect to the satisfaction of the House
or the committee in question, and order him
to pay all costs which may have been occasioned
in compelling his attendance or by reason of
his failure, refusal or neglect to obey the
summons, and also to impose such fine as may
be prescribed for any such failure, refused
or neglect; and any fine so imposed shall be
recoverable in the same manner as a fine imposed
by a court of law.
(2) A summons or warrant issued under this section
may be served or executed by any member of the
Nigeria Police Force or by any person authorised
in that behalf by the President of the Senate
or the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
as the case may require.
