As a result of the sex scandal faced by some members of the
House of Representatives, the House is making frantic effort to have an
audience with the U.S. Ambassador in Nigeria, Mr. James Entwistle after an
investigative public hearing fixed for Thursday was ignored by the envoy.
Prior to the decision to meet the U.S. Ambassador, the Lower
House had insisted that the Ambassador must attend the hearing now billed to
hold on 20 July.
However, Mr. Entwistle gave diplomatic immunity as his
reason not to honour the invitation to appear for the public hearing.
The investigation into the sex scandal arose due to a
petition made by the Ambassador to the Hon. Speaker Yakubu Dogara, where
Mohammed Garba Gololo (Bauchi), Samuel Ikon (Akwa Ibom), and Mark Gbillah
(Benue) of an attempted rape and soliciting s*x from commercial sex workers,
while in the U.S. for an official tour in April.
It is in a bid to get to the root of the matter that the
Lower House said they will be willing to go to the U.S. Ambassador.
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