Tag: Bribe

  • Police IG rewards DPO for rejecting $200,000 bribe

    Police IG rewards DPO for rejecting $200,000 bribe

    The Inspector General of Police IGP, Usman Alkali Baba has presented a certificate of Award to Nassarawa, Divisional Police Officer, SP Daniel Itse Amah.

    Amah was rewarded for rejecting the sum of Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (USD 200,000) offered him as a bribe in a case of alleged armed robbery.

    In a letter containing the commendation, SP Daniel was hailed for exhibiting sound professionalism leading to the arrest of Ali Zaki, a Kano-based legal practitioner, and some Police officers.

    According to reports, investigations by Operatives led by SP Daniel led to the arrest of the suspected armed robbery syndicate in Kano.

    Consequently, the case was transferred to the Force Headquarters in Abuja on the directive of IGP for discreet investigation.

    When contacted, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, Force Public Relations Officer, confirmed the arrest and said, “The lawyer and other suspects involved in the case have a case to answer and we are still on with the matter.”

  • LAGOS: RRS Police intercepts bus-load of illicit drugs, N500,000 bribe rejected

    LAGOS: RRS Police intercepts bus-load of illicit drugs, N500,000 bribe rejected

    Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, have rejected the sum of N500,000 offered as bribe, after they intercepted a bus-load of illicit drugs at the Mile 2 area of Lagos State.

     

    A statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said preliminary investigations revealed that the drugs were loaded in a Lagos colour LT bus, with the registration number AGL 205 YD belonging to one Alhaji, better known as General in Mushin.

     

    Hundeyin said: “A member of the drug syndicate confessed that they picked up the consignment, which has a street value of about N10 million, at Alaba Rago around 10.00pm on Saturday for shipment to Mushin.

     

    “Luck, however, ran out on them when RRS officials on patrol stopped the bus on a routine check at about 0400hrs today.

     

    “Another member of the syndicate, Oluwole Omojuyitan, aged 40, who had initially escaped the scene on a bike, was arrested by the operatives after he came back with a sum of N500,000 to bribe the officers to release the drugs and suspects.

     

    “Other arrested members of the gang include Ojukwu Omanogho aged 36 and Hope Jumbo aged 40.”

     

    The Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alabi, while commending the Commander RRS, CSP Olaýinka Egbeyemi, and the team have since directed that the suspects and exhibits be transferred to the Command’s headquarters for further investigations.

     

     

  • Rare Nigerian policemen reject N300k bribe, return N600k wrong deposit

    Rare Nigerian policemen reject N300k bribe, return N600k wrong deposit

    The Inspector-General of Police has commended three rare Nigerian police officers for rejecting N300,000 bribe and returning N600,000 paid into one of their accounts in error.

    The police boss charged Senior Police Officers to always commend their personnel who have exemplarily excelled in their duties, which have in turn impacted positively on the goodwill and image of the Nigeria Police Force.

    He said this in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Tuesday. “The IGP made the charge while commending the exemplary performances of some officers and men across the State Commands, particularly Sergeant Sampson Ekikere, attached to 22 Police Mobile Force, Ikeja, Lagos, for his uncommon professionalism exhibited on Saturday, 19th March 2022, when he painstakingly recovered a wallet, belonging to one Mr. Lukman Abaja, and traced the owner to deliver the found item.

    “He equally commended Sergeant Yahaya Ahmed attached to Higher Shari’ah Court, Tudun Wada Division, Gusau, Zamfara State, for rejecting the sum of N300, 000 bribe, offered to him by one Chukwuka Jude, who was arrested at the same court on 18th January, 2022 for the offence of false presentation and cheating by impersonation.

    “Also commended was CSP Elemide Akinkunmi Bishop who was Head of Operations at the Police Radio. CSP Bishop was mistakenly credited with the sum of N600,000 into his Police Account. The officer withdrew the sum and remitted it back to the Nigeria Police Cooperative Society treasury, showing attributes of an honest and trustworthy police officer,” the statement added.

    Baba, however, assured the entire Police workforce of sustainable efforts in improving their condition of service.

    The Inspector-General of Police has commended police officers for rejecting N300,000 bribe and returning N600,000 paid into one of their accounts in error.

    The police boss charged Senior Police Officers to always commend their personnel who have exemplarily excelled in their duties, which have in turn impacted positively on the goodwill and image of the Nigeria Police Force.

  • Serving Abuja LG chairman arraigned for allegedly receiving N10m bribe from contractor

    Serving Abuja LG chairman arraigned for allegedly receiving N10m bribe from contractor

    The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned the Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council, Adamu Danze, for allegedly receiving N10 million kickback from a contractor handling construction projects in the area council.

    Danze was arraigned by the Commission before Justice U. P. Kekemeke of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court 4 on allegations of corruption bordering on abuse of office and gratification.

    ICPC had filed six counts before the court in which it accused the council chairman of demanding and receiving N10 million bribe from the Director of Remotosh Construction Limited, Aremu Omotosho, in exchange for approving payment for the construction of a double-cell culvert in Paiko-Kore.

    The local council boss was alleged to have committed the offence in March 2018 when he directed the contractor to transfer the money to his lawyer handling his election tribunal case, thereby violating Sections 8 (1)(a), 10 (a)(i), 18 (b) and 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.

    One of the charges read, “That you, Adamu Mustapha Danze on or about the month of March 2018 at Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, while being a public officer as the Executive Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council received the sum of N10 million from Engineer Aremu Omotosho, the director of Remotosh Construction Limited for approving payment for the construction of double cell culvert at Paiko-Kore awarded to Remotosh Construction Limited by Gwagwalada Area Council, the sum you asked the contractor to transfer to your counsel defending you in the election tribunal and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 10 (a)(i) and punishable under Section 10 (a)(ii) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.”

    Danze, who had a bench warrant issued on him, pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to him while the warrant was subsequently dismissed by the trial judge after a plea by the defence Counsel, Abdul Mohammed.

    Mohammed, in his remarks, apologised to the judge for failing to attend proceedings on two previous dates fixed by the court, saying it was due to the recent kidnapping activities in Gwagwalada.

    He also informed the court that the defendant was coordinating rescue operations in the area council, and moved a motion praying that the accused be admitted to bail at the discretion of the court pending trial.

    Counsel to ICPC, Michael Adesola, in his counter-argument, averred that the accused was very deliberate in his actions of ignoring court sittings as he was duly served all proceedings since last year.

    Adesola, who also opposed the bail application, prayed the court to remand the accused in a correctional facility to prevent him from interfering and intimidating witnesses, some of whom were employees in the area council.

    Justice Kekemeke, having listened to both counsels, held that the defendant cannot jump bail based on his current position.

    “The defendant who is the current Chairman of Gwagwalada Area Council cannot evade his trial,” he held. “He has nowhere to hide as I give him the benefit of doubt. The application therefore subsists. Bail is therefore granted to the defendant.”

    Danze was admitted to bail in the sum of N20 million and a surety in like sum while the case was adjourned until March 1, 2022, for trial.

  • NFF re-instates Salisu Yusuf as coach after bribery ban

    NFF re-instates Salisu Yusuf as coach after bribery ban

    The Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF has approved the re-instatement of Coach Salisu Yusuf to his position as Assistant Coach of the Super Eagles and Head Coach of the Super Eagles B team, with effect from 1st November 2021.

    General Secretary of the NFF, Dr Mohammed Sanusi, disclosed on Thursday that the re-instatement of the former Kano Pillars, Enyimba FC and Rangers International FC gaffer by the NFF Board was on the recommendation of the NFF Technical Department.

    Highly respected for his match –reading ability, calm demeanour and proficiency in talent discovery and development, Yusuf, in his playing days featured for Rancher Bees of Kaduna and El-Kanemi Warriors of Maiduguri, among others.

    Yusuf’s return to the three-time African champions coincides with the closing stages of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifying second round phase and the commencement of preparations for the 33rd Africa Cup of Nations finals taking place in Cameroon early next year.

    Recall that Salisu was in August 2018 caught on camera accepting cash from men who posed as football agents to select two players for his Morocco 2018 African Nations Championship squad.

    He was ordered to pay a fine of $5,000 by the federation after the NFF Ethics and Fair Play Committee ruled that the coach received $1,000 from the men.

  • Three per cent in PIA: Senate President speaks on alleged $10m bribe received by NASS members

    Three per cent in PIA: Senate President speaks on alleged $10m bribe received by NASS members

    President of the Senate Ahmed Lawan has debunked reports suggesting that members of the National Assembly were bribed to the tune of $10 million to pass the three per cent allocation to host communities as stipulated in the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA).

    Lawan told State House correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday that he took exception to the spread of falsehood propagated to mislead the public.

    “That is funny but also very serious,” the Senate President said of the allegation. “I really want to take this opportunity to take exception to those kinds of unwarranted, unprovable, false and fake information being fed to the Nigerian public.”

    His comment is the latest development in the controversy that has followed the National Assembly’s decision to shun calls for five per cent allocation to the host communities in favour of the three per cent allocation when they passed the Petroleum Industry Bill 2021.

    President Buhari signed the bill into law on August 16, three days after returning from his trip to the United Kingdom, a move that further fueled debates over the choice of three percent allocation to the host communities.

    Beyond the debates, reports emerged claiming the lawmakers’ decision in passing the bill was influenced by kickbacks, reports the Senate President says are part of a dangerous trend.

    “The danger people will face with this is, you cause unnecessary damage to the reputation of people,” he said.

    Such allegations, Senator Lawan said, amounted to slander.

    “I had an occasion to take someone to court because of this kind of thing previously, about three months ago,” he added, signalling his willingness to take legal action when necessary.

    While urging Nigerians to speak the truth at all times, he gave the assurance that the Senate was working in the best interest of the people.

    Meanwhile, the President’s assent has led to the emergence of the Petroleum Industry Act which provides legal, governance, regulatory and fiscal framework for the Nigerian petroleum industry.

    Under the act, host communities are expected to get three per cent of the operating expenditure of oil companies, while 30 per cent of the revenue is set aside for frontier exploration, an agreement which some, especially those from the South-South, have vehemently frowned at, demanding a higher allocation.

    The host communities allocation debate, argued on the pages of dailies, and in parliament, has continued even after the National Assembly settled for three per cent mid July and the President’s assent to the bill, the birth of a much-anticipated Act.

  • Bribe: Abba Kyari narrates involvement with Hushpuppi

    Bribe: Abba Kyari narrates involvement with Hushpuppi

    Nigeria’s celebrated Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari has narrated his involvement with suspected notorious fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, alias Hushpuppi.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Hushpuppi earlier this month pleaded guilty to multi-million dollar fraud and faces up to 20 years in jail.

    According to the US Department of Justice, a criminal complaint initiated the prosecution of Hushpuppi in February as court documents unsealed showed that Abbas, a 37-year-old Nigerian national, pleaded guilty on April 20.

    Court filings by Hushpuppi showed how he bribed Nigeria’s celebrated Deputy Commissioner of Police, Kyari.

    However, Kyari has narrated his own side of the story.

    He wrote: “Friends: Abbas who we later came to know as Hushpuppi called our office about 2years ago that somebody in Nigeria Seriously threatened to kill his Family here in Nigeria and he sent the person’s Phone number and pleaded we take action before the Person attacks his family.

    “We traced and arrested the Suspect and after investigations we discovered there wasn’t an actual threat to anyone’s life And they are long time friends who have money issues between them hence we released the Suspect on bail to go and he was not taken to any jail.

    “Nobody demanded for a kobo from Abbas Hushpuppi. Our focus was to Save people’s lives that were purported to have been threatened.

    “Later, he saw some of my Native Clothes and Caps on my social media page and he said he likes them and he was connected to the person selling the clothes and he sent about N300k directly to the person’s account. The Native Clothes and Caps (5 sets) were brought to our office and He sent somebody to Collect them in our office.

    “Nobody demanded any money from Abbas Hushpuppi and nobody collected any money from him. We responded to a distress call he made on threat to his family and released the Suspect when we discovered there was no life threat from the Suspect. This is the true story. Vincent is alive, he can be contacted.

    “For those who are celebrating that this is an indictment on us and mentioning some fictitious Big Money, They will be disappointed once again as our hands are clean and our record of Service for 2 decades is open for everybody to See. They will continue seeing us serving our father land and we will Continue responding to ALL distress Calls from ALL Nigerians provided they are life threatening.

    “For Good Nigerians who appreciate our Service please don’t worry as our hands are clean and they should please not respond to those celebrating and creating many false Narratives without any Evidence. We are used to such types of people and false newsmakers and distributors. Thank you all and GOD bless Nigeria”.

    TNG reports Hushpuppi will be sentenced in the coming weeks and will forfeit some of his assets and his rights to appeal while also paying restitution to victims of his years-long fraud.

  • Stop offering us bribes, police, FRSC warn Nigerians

    The Police and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Tuesday urged Nigerians to stop offering their officers a bribe.

    They also urged the public to report any officer who demands a bribe.

    The two agencies were among participants at a one-day virtual stakeholder dialogue on “effective and sustainable strategies for curbing retail corruption” organised by the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC).

    PACAC Executive Secretary Prof Sadiq Radda said citizens have a critical role to play in ending petty (retail) corruption, most of which occur in form of bribery.

    He believes retail corruption can be reduced when citizens are law-abiding and comply with the rules, and when institutions play their roles effectively.

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    “Cutting corners is why we have retail corruption. There are processes for getting things done. We should have respect for process and procedures,” he said.

    Radda called for the deployment of technology to automate the processes that are prone to abuse.

    He added that government agencies have a duty to provide quality and efficient service delivery to achieve a system where average Nigerians would not need to cut corners or get frustrated.

    A Deputy Commissioner of Police, Olaolu Adegbite, of the Force Intelligence Bureau, urged Nigerians to report infractions by officers and men to the X-Squad, the Inspector-General of Police Monitoring Unit and the Police Complaint Response Unit (PCRU).

    “The X-Squad monitors unethical conduct. Citizens can approach the squad with information.

    “The IG Monitoring Unit also conducts sting operations and arrests officers in the field and makes recoveries. Citizens must provide support through evidence.

    “Citizens should stop the act of offering bribe and gratification, which is a crime under the Criminal Code,” he said.

    A senior FRSC official, Ntukidem Godwin, said the Corps has deployed technology through body cameras to monitor officers’ field activities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), adding that there are plans to replicate it in other states.

    He said Nigerians who comply with traffic rules do not have a reason to offer a bribe to road safety officers.

    “Don’t commit traffic violations and don’t offer our officers bribe. Don’t tempt us with bribe so that we can let you go,” he said.

    Godwin added that some members of the public who make reports hardly present evidence, which makes it difficult to sanction erring officers.

    The event featured a keynote address by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) chairman Prof Bolaji Owasanoye (SAN), represented by Dr Chris Chinda.

    Senate Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes Committee Chairman Senator Suleiman Abdul Kwari was represented by his advisor Ashley Emenike.

    Other speakers included Abiodun Aikhomu of the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation, Usman Dakinviri of the Nigeria Customs Service, and the Executive Chairman, Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) Debo Adeniran, amongst others.

  • PDP vows to probe members who received bribes from Tinubu in Lagos

    PDP vows to probe members who received bribes from Tinubu in Lagos

     

    By Emman Ovuakporie

    The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has vowed to probe members who allegedly collected money from former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, an All Progressives Congress, APC leader.

    The party apparently peeved by this alleged ugly development also vowed to activate its undercover investigation to verify the claims that some leaders in the party in the state have been receiving financial gratifications from Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos and APC national leader.

    It could be recalled that Segun Adewale popularly known as Aeroland, a former state chairman of the PDP, who was suspended by his ward chapter on Monday, had claimed that 99 per cent of PDP leaders in Lagos state are moles in the party who have been allegedly receiving money from Tinubu.

    He said: “I am the only PDP leader who has not received any bribe from Tinubu. They have been collecting bribes from him, despite claiming to be PDP leaders. Ninety-nine per cent of PDP leaders in Lagos are collecting money from Tinubu. Only one percent of us are committed and they hated us”.

    Taofik Gani, the Publicity Secretary of the party, however, said the onus lies on Aeroland to back up his claim with evidence.

    “He who asserts must prove. If a chieftain of the party made the claim that some party leaders are collecting money from APC, that means he has evidence to back up his claim.

    “I believe any chieftain of the party who is disturbed by this can take him up. I will only advise that people should watch what they say because this is same thing that is affecting this country now as a result of the bad image some people created for this country in 2015 when they wanted to wrest power from the PDP.

    “However, there may be elements of truth in the claim and so, this party is admonishing any leader or party member who may have been affected by this allegation to desist forthwith as we shall have our own undercover investigation activated immediately.

    “You are either a member of Lagos PDP or not. We don’t want those spreading one leg in PDP and the other in APC in our midst.”

  • Shell contract feud: Petitioner accuses Reps Committee  of demanding N10m Bribe

    Shell contract feud: Petitioner accuses Reps Committee of demanding N10m Bribe

    …you’re a deranged liar, clerk reacts
    …insists Committee Clerk In Alleged Demand
    …alleged Committee Chair Attempted Covering Up For Shell Petroleum
    By Emman Ovuakporie
    A petitioner Mr Finidi Jahbless has alleged that the House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Petitions is involved in a foul play in a petition brought before it against Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).
    Jahbless, from Warri in Delta state also said the committee chairman, Hon. Jerry Alagboso PDP, Imo), had at one of the hearings tried covering up a case of forgery allegedly perpetrated by Shell Petroleum.
    Mr. Jahbless, an origin of Delta state, South-South Nigeria, had petitioned the House to complain that the oil giant had treated him shabbily by refusing to pay for a job his company was duly awarded and executed for Shell.
    In the petition dated, 31st March, 2020, and addressed to the Speaker of the House, Mr. Jahbless complained about Shell’s flagrant disregard for series of invitations by the House to appear for explanations on allegations of breach of contract as alleged in his earlier petition.
    Lawyer to SPDC, Ama Etuwewe (SAN), had on March 4, 2021 tendered a document before the panel indicating that an agreement was reached and signed following a negotiation with stakeholders including the Petitioner, for payment which had since been made.
    Lawyers to the Petitioner, Karina Tunyan (SAN) & Co also wrote to the committee alleging rascality and arm-twisting tactics employed by Shell to manipulate and control the House through the committee.
    In the letter dated 13th April, 2021 and addressed to the committee chairman as seen by our correspondent, the law firm said: “We are astonished, to receive a copy of complaint letter written by the law firm of Agbajoh Etuwewe & Co to chairman House Committee on Public Petitions, showing that SPDC Nigeria Limited has powers to arm-twist the powers vested on the National Assembly under sections 88 and 89 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999(as amended).”
    The law firm in another letter dated March 9, 2021, and addressed to the committee chairman, also raised the alarm about a forgery allegedly perpetrated by Shell purporting to have reached an agreement with its client, Mr Jahbless towards an amicable settlement of their commitments.
    Titled: ‘Disclaimer of the Signature of our Client, Mr Finidi K. Jahbless on the Purported Document, that was Presented to the House Committee on Public Petition and Investigative Hearing…,’ the lawyers said ” we write on behalf of our client, to categorically disclaim the said document, which to the best of our knowledge, never existed because for over the years that this matter started, right from Public Complaint Commission, we never set our eyes on this document.”
    “We therefore challenge Barrister Ama Etuwewe (SAN), to present before this Honourable committee, all the parties that their names and signatures appeared, as being in attendance during the purported negotiation” the petitioner’s lawyers said.
    But according to the Petitioner, when the matter was heard by Tue panel on March 4, 2021, the chairman of the committee, Hon. Jerry Alagboso (PDP, Imo), tried to cover-up the fact that his signature was forged on the said agreement tendered by Shell.
    In a video recording of the committee’s proceeding of March 4, 2021, seen by TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) members of the committee were seen insisting that a case of forgery had been made and the chairman should deal with it before further deliberation on the matter.
    A member of the House, Hon. Awaji Inombek Dagomie Abiante from Bayelsa was clearly seen telling the chairman to first determine the allegation of forgery against Shell by the Petitioner who said he never signed any agreement and that he has not been paid for his work.
    Following pressure from members as seen in the video, Chairman Alagboso called for documents bearing the petitioner’s signature, which was compared to the one on the said document tendered by Shell and found to be irregular.
    At this point, the panel before adjourning the matter to April 17, resolved that Shell should go and settle with the Petitioner, failure of which the committee will invoke its relevant constitutional powers to compel compliance.
    However, the Petitioner told this newspaper that on getting back to the committee on the adjourned date, the committee chairman, Jerry Alagboso practically chased him away, saying that Shell has taken the matter to court.
    Asked if he was served with any notice of judicial proceeding regarding the matter, he responded in the negative, just as he said the committee did not communicate any such development to him nor show him the notice so sent to it by Shell on the matter.
    He said in his quest to get details of happenings around his petition, he approached the Committee Clerk, Mr. Yilzy Yakubu who then asked him for the sum of N10m before his report which he claimed was ready could be laid before the House, contrary to what the chairman had told the Petitioner.
    “I left the Chairman’s place and went to the Clerk, but he told me a different thing. He said the report of the committee on my petition was ready but if I want it to make it to House for consideration, I should bring the sum of N10m.
    “I went back to the chairman who earlier told me the case was in court, but he changed the tune again by saying that the report has been presented to the House. So I asked for the Votes and Proceedings of that day so I can confirm what he said, but he shouted me down.
    “When I left there, I went to the committee on Rules and Business that’s in charge of records of proceedings, but I was told my report has not been brought for presentation yet. The woman checked many times on the system, but nothing came up bearing my name.
    “Just when I was about leaving the Rules and Business office, the Clerk rushed in not knowing that I had preceded him and found out their lies”, he said.
    He added that after realising that he had caught them in the act, the Clerk rushed to him to say that the report was ready but the inability of the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Idris Wase to “trash matters”, was stalling it.
    “The Clerk after seeing that they had been caught in their own lies started telling me the report was actually ready, but because the Deputy Speaker who usually presides over the Committee of the Whole doesn’t trash matters as he should, is delaying many things”, he alleged.
    Reached by our correspondent for reaction, the Committee Clerk, Mr. Yilzy Yakubu, also referred to as pastor, denied the allegation, describing the Petitioner as ” a deranged liar and a blackmailer.”
    He said: “May be the guy is mentally deranged, I’m thinking that the guy is mentally deranged. I can swear with my Bible, you know I’m a pastor. I can swear with my Bible that I have never in any way asked him to give me a kobo. If he can swear as a child of God, if he’s a child of God, let him swear that I asked him to give so–so money.
    “I have never seen a Petitioner where he will always come everyday to bombard the committee to write his report,
    and to know what is in the report. And it was on that note that I refused to disclose the recommendations of the report. So if he’s hating me because of hat, so be it. So that’s the brief explanation I have to give you”, the Clerk submitted.
    On the alleged indictment of the Deputy Speaker, the Clerk, in his reaction described the Petitioner as a “fraud”, who wants to nock peoples heads in acrimony and misunderstanding.
    “You see, that guy is a fraud. He wants to knock everybody’s head around and I want to believe that he can never get me. If I’m on his record, let him play what I have discussed with him. Let him play it on record, not just to frame anything. I went to Rules and Business because I have a report to submit to the House and the record of all the report that I have laid were not properly captured by Rules and Business. So I went to Rules and Business to obtain their own statistical compilation and I met him there.
    “First, he came and went to my chairman, and my chairman summoned me, and I know that we wrote this report since. I submitted 8 reports to Committee on Rules and Business, and Rules and Business said the reports were too many. So they slated 6 and dropped 2, so I didn’t know that his own was one of them.
    “So the chairman called me to ask what about this man’s report, of which he’s not supposed to come to the committee to ask for his report. But this man keeps harassing us all the time about his report. I told chairman that his report has been laid, of which he asked for the Votes and proceedings and incidentally when he went to Rules and Business, it wasn’t on their records. As at that time I went there for the statistics, I met him there. I said okay that’s my work, let him give me and the Rules and Business chance to reconcile our records. Because previously when we were reconciling our records of reports that we had laid before the House, I discovered she was not able to capture them all. That was what I told him, so that we could reconcile, and he said what reconciliation? That the lady said the report was not there. And he went mad”, the Clerk narrated.
    The committee chairman did not respond to calls and text messages put across to him for comments on this matter as at the time of filing this story.
    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG also gathered that the matter has aroused interest from some powerful quarters within the National Assembly, including the Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege, who was said to have sent a delegation of observers to the hearing on March 4, 2020.