House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts yesterday gave Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, 40 days to refund N46,168,625.

Queries alleged NDE's N1.4b unaccounted loans disbursement House faults revised civic education curriculum Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts yesterday gave Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, 40 days to refund N46,168,625.

Permanent Secretary, Common Services Office, Office of the HoCSF, Mr. Chaa Chinyeaka, who stood for Oyo-Ita at the hearing, was asked to deliver the resolution of the committee to the Head of Service.

Chinyeaka said he had expected that the documents earlier forwarded to the committee by the office would be adequate in answering the query from the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation in 2013.

Chairman of the committee, Kingsley Chinda, has warned agencies of government against forgery and all forms of financial abuses.

In another development, the House yesterday faulted the revised Civic Education curriculum on the basis that it ran contrary to the provision of the 1999 Constitution as amended.

The House directed the Malam Adamu Adamu-led Federal Ministry of Education to ensure that religious studies which is the controversial aspect of the new educational policy be taught in schools in accordance with the spirit and letters of the 1999 Constitution as amended.

It further called on the ministry to make civic education optional instead of compulsory subject for SSCE examination and should rather be taught under "Government" as was the case under the previous curriculum.