US Ambassador To Present Video Evidence Of Lawmakers Sexual Misconduct On Thursday

Recall that Entwistle wrote a petition to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, claiming that the house members, Samuel Ikon (PDP, Akwa Ibom), Mohammed Gololo (APC, Bauchi) and Mark Gbillah (APC, Benue), while on an official assignment in April this year, had solicited for sex from prostitutes, also grabbing a hotel housekeeper in a bid to rape her.

The US government, in a swift reaction, cancelled their visa, barring them from entering the country.

Following receipt of the petition, Dogara, set up a panel – led by Ossai- to investigate the incident.

The committee, which had been unable to sit because some of the members embarked on pilgrimage to Mecca during the Ramadan, will on Thursday, open public hearing on the matter.

Chairman of the committee, Ossai, said the committee decided not to invite the management of the hotel where the alleged sex misconduct took place, because it believed the Ambassador would come with all the necessary video evidence on the act.

He added: “When I am given a job, I do it diligently. I don’t compromise anything. My reputation and the reputation of the House is at stake.”

Commenting on the issue, the member representing Ukwa Federal Constituency of Abia State, Uzoma Nkem-Abonta asked the Ambassador to tender any video evidence he had before the committee.

He said: “Let him bring the video tape so that the whole world will see it. I think that if that is true, that he had the video evidence, our legislators did not behave well.”

Also commenting, Onyemaechi Joan Mrakpor of Delta State, said she would not like to preempt the committee or any evidence the Ambassador claims he has until everything was made public. She said: “That is his claim, he should provide the evidence. The people (the three lawmakers) are alive to present their own explanations or evidence.”