Update: Group welcomed President Buhari with a Pettion

President Buhari welcomed back to Nigeria

The sexual misconduct scandal in the past few days has raised an eyebrow both in some sectors and also has fueled the anger of the public.
Therefore 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 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.

“Therefore, we demand an immediate investigation of this national embarrassment by the security agencies which are statutorily established to perform such functions,” the petition read.

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.”