The Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate has welcomed President Muhammadu Buhari with a petition against three members of the House of Representatives – The group said the allegation of attempted rape against the affected members is a dent on the image of the entire country – The group further wants the members of the House and seven of their other colleagues suspended while investigation continues The Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari asking him to commence an immediate probe of the alleged sex scandal rocking three members of the House of Representatives.
Buhari returned from a medical trip abroad on Sunday to meet the scandal which was blown open by the Unites States ambassador to Nigeria, Mr James Entwistle. Though the three legislators have denied the allegations while the leadership of the House has come to their rescue, the rights group, through a senior official, Nelson Ekujumi, is asking the president to investigate the allegation because it is a dent on the image of Nigeria the presidency is working hard to redeem. In the petition sighted by NAIJ.com, the group recalled that the three legislators were part of 10 members of the House who travelled to the US for a programme. The petition, which was copied Yakubu Dogara, the speaker, SOlomon Arase, the inspector-general, and others, named the three affected lawmakers as Mark Gbillah, who is the deputy chairman of the committee on petroleum resources (upstream), Samuel Ikon from Akwa Ibom and Mohhammed Garba-Gololo from Bauchi. “Sir, in the petition of alleged criminality and improper conduct against three out of a 10-member delegation of ‘honourable’ members addressed to the speaker by the US government, it was stated that they were in the United States of America at the instance of the US government invitation as participants in the international visitor leadership programme on good. “We regard this allegations as an international embarrassment, grave, injurious, indecorous, assault and damaging not only to the image of the mentioned members of the House of the Representatives as representatives of our bastion of democracy, the legislature, but also to the collective integrity and honour of the Nigerian people as represented by the honourable members.
The group said it was saddened by the alleged complicity of other members of the delegation as stated by the US ambassador in his petition that: “In addition, most of the members of this group reacted very negatively to my deputy when she brought this matter to their attention, further calling into question their judgement and commitment…..which might lead us to question whether to include National Assembly members for other similar programmes in the future.” The CPPM said it wants to place on record that it rejects any attempt by the House of Representatives to investigate this allegations of criminality leveled against its members because it runs counter to logic, rationality and natural justice for one to be a judge in his or her own case. “We don’t have confidence that the course of justice will be served by the House of Representatives investigative committee,” it said. Among its demands, the group said it wants an “immediate suspension of the three mentioned members from the plenary session of the House of House Representatives by the House for bringing its image and that of the Nigerian people into public opprobrium until investigation is concluded and appropriate sanctions implemented.”
It also wants an immediate suspension of the other seven members of the delegation from plenary session by the House for being accessories to the commission of an alleged crime by not informing the House of this development until the petition from the US government. It demanded that the report of this investigation be made public in order to send a clear signal that acts of criminality and indecent behaviour is unacceptable and intolerable by the Nigerian government and people. It demanded “a public apology by the Nigerian government and the House of Representatives to the government and people of the US for the criminality and indecent conduct of this members if found guilty and demand of same from the US government, if investigation proves otherwise.”
Buhari returned from a
medical trip abroad on Sunday to meet the scandal which was blown open
by the Unites States ambassador to Nigeria, Mr James Entwistle.
Though the three legislators have denied the allegations while the
leadership of the House has come to their rescue, the rights group,
through a senior official, Nelson Ekujumi, is asking the president to
investigate the allegation because it is a dent on the image of Nigeria
the presidency is working hard to redeem.
In the petition sighted by NAIJ.com, the group recalled that the three
legislators were part of 10 members of the House who travelled to the US
for a programme.
The petition, which was copied Yakubu Dogara, the speaker, SOlomon
Arase, the inspector-general, and others, named the three affected
lawmakers as Mark Gbillah, who is the deputy chairman of the committee
on petroleum resources (upstream), Samuel Ikon from Akwa Ibom and
Mohhammed Garba-Gololo from Bauchi.
“Sir, in the petition of alleged criminality and improper conduct
against three out of a 10-member delegation of ‘honourable’ members
addressed to the speaker by the US government, it was stated that they
were in the United States of America at the instance of the US
government invitation as participants in the international visitor
leadership programme on good.
“We regard this allegations as an international embarrassment, grave,
injurious, indecorous, assault and damaging not only to the image of the
mentioned members of the House of the Representatives as
representatives of our bastion of democracy, the legislature, but also
to the collective integrity and honour of the Nigerian people as
represented by the honourable members.
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Read more: https://www.naij.com/865746-just-back-medical-trip-buhari-gets-first-petition.html
Buhari returned from a medical trip abroad on Sunday to meet the scandal which was blown open by the Unites States ambassador to Nigeria, Mr James Entwistle. Though the three legislators have denied the allegations while the leadership of the House has come to their rescue, the rights group, through a senior official, Nelson Ekujumi, is asking the president to investigate the allegation because it is a dent on the image of Nigeria the presidency is working hard to redeem. In the petition sighted by NAIJ.com, the group recalled that the three legislators were part of 10 members of the House who travelled to the US for a programme. The petition, which was copied Yakubu Dogara, the speaker, SOlomon Arase, the inspector-general, and others, named the three affected lawmakers as Mark Gbillah, who is the deputy chairman of the committee on petroleum resources (upstream), Samuel Ikon from Akwa Ibom and Mohhammed Garba-Gololo from Bauchi. “Sir, in the petition of alleged criminality and improper conduct against three out of a 10-member delegation of ‘honourable’ members addressed to the speaker by the US government, it was stated that they were in the United States of America at the instance of the US government invitation as participants in the international visitor leadership programme on good. “We regard this allegations as an international embarrassment, grave, injurious, indecorous, assault and damaging not only to the image of the mentioned members of the House of the Representatives as representatives of our bastion of democracy, the legislature, but also to the collective integrity and honour of the Nigerian people as represented by the honourable members.
The group said it was saddened by the alleged complicity of other members of the delegation as stated by the US ambassador in his petition that: “In addition, most of the members of this group reacted very negatively to my deputy when she brought this matter to their attention, further calling into question their judgement and commitment…..which might lead us to question whether to include National Assembly members for other similar programmes in the future.” The CPPM said it wants to place on record that it rejects any attempt by the House of Representatives to investigate this allegations of criminality leveled against its members because it runs counter to logic, rationality and natural justice for one to be a judge in his or her own case. “We don’t have confidence that the course of justice will be served by the House of Representatives investigative committee,” it said. Among its demands, the group said it wants an “immediate suspension of the three mentioned members from the plenary session of the House of House Representatives by the House for bringing its image and that of the Nigerian people into public opprobrium until investigation is concluded and appropriate sanctions implemented.”
It also wants an immediate suspension of the other seven members of the delegation from plenary session by the House for being accessories to the commission of an alleged crime by not informing the House of this development until the petition from the US government. It demanded that the report of this investigation be made public in order to send a clear signal that acts of criminality and indecent behaviour is unacceptable and intolerable by the Nigerian government and people. It demanded “a public apology by the Nigerian government and the House of Representatives to the government and people of the US for the criminality and indecent conduct of this members if found guilty and demand of same from the US government, if investigation proves otherwise.”
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