* We generated N34.3 trn in 7 years- firm
From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
House of Representatives Public Account Committee (PAC) has insisted that the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun and CBN Governor, Yemi Cardoso  must appear before it in respect to the probe of alleged revenue leakages through REMITA platform. 
The PAC chairman Bamidele Salam, who stated this at an investigative hearing organised by the committee, said Edun and Cardoso must appear before the lawmakers in person.
This is as Managing Director/CEO of REMITA, Mr. ‘Deremi Atanda , the sum of N34.311 trillion revenue was generated through its platform into the Federation Account between 2015 and 2022.
Atanda dismissed insinuation  that REMITA imposed additional fee apart from the approved N150 (which represents 10 cents at current exchange rate) on the revenue generating MDAs. He explained that the REMITA payment gateway platform provides additional technology services to the Federation at no cost, despite pay in foreign exchange for hosting the platform on cloud based platform.
The Managing Director added that the sum of N1.5 trillion was remitted through the platform in 2015, N2.8 trillion in 2016, N3.7 trillion in 2017, N4.6 trillion in 2018, N4.6 trillion in 2019, N4.2 trillion in 2020 being COVID year, N6 trillion in 2021 while N6.8 trillion was realized in 2022 fiscal year, respectively.
According to him, the firm was engaged by the CBN   as part of efforts geared towards shoring up revenue of the federation. He noted that  relevant agreements were signed and standard operating procedures were followed.
Furthermore, Atanda stated that
CBN and office of the Accountant General of the Federation have 100 percent access to the platform while all revenues accruing into each of the 1,137 MDAs that pay through the REMITA platform get the funds immediately and such revenues are accessed by the apex bank on daily basis.