The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating the circumstances surrounding the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) has invited the Foreign Affairs Minister, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, and the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, for clarifications on the existence of the fake agency.
The chairman of the ad-hoc committee, Yusuf Gagdi, announced the invitations during an investigative session on the matter at the National Assembly in Abuja on Tuesday, July 21, 2026.
Gagdi, who interrogated the existence of the fake agency, said its diplomatic engagement with some embassies was an embarrassment to Nigeria.
Gagdi expressed dismay over the inability of the foreign affairs ministry to effectively detect the existence of the fake agency.
The lawmaker said: “The Minister of Foreign Affairs is hereby invited to appear on Thursday, July 23.
“The National Security Adviser is also invited to appear before this committee to explain why it did not go further in inquiries after receiving letter from the foreign affairs ministry labeling the agency fake.”
Responding, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dunoma Ahmed, acknowledged receipt of letters from the PFIPC for engagement with diplomats.
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Ahmed explained that upon reception of the letters, the ministry carried out inquiries into its originality and discovered that the agency was fake.
“We, therefore, wrote to the Office of the National Security Adviser informing them that the agency was fake,” Ahmed added.
The impostor Director General of PFIPC, Adeniyi Adeyemi, has been arrested and detained in Osun State.
His arrest followed a warrant issued on by the Federal High Court in Abuja after he failed to appear at a hearing to face charges of forgery and impersonation before the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).
The reports on the fake agency have been trending since President Bola Tinubu ordered an investigation into the fake agency.
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