US Ambassador to Present Sexual Misconduct Video Evidence Thursday

Samuel Ikon, Mark Gbillah, Mohammed Garba Gololo accused of sexual misconduct

 

The United States Ambassador to Nigeria will on Thursday provide video evidence against some elected legislators accused of sexual misconduct in the US. 

The outgoing United States ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, is expected to produce the video evidence of the alleged sexual misconduct leveled against three Nigerian lawmakers on Thursday.

 

The Ossai Ossai Committee probing the alleged sexual misconduct involving the three members of the House of Representatives has fixed a meeting with the ambassador for Thursday where all the evidences will be presented.

 

Apart from the outgoing US Ambassador that is expected at the open public hearing, the Committee also extended invitation to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema, Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, the three accused lawmakers, the National Human Rights Commission, as well as the other seven members that attended the leadership programme.

 

Chairman of the Committee, Ossai said the committee did not carry out any secret investigation because the members involved in the allegation had demanded public investigative hearing for Nigerians to see determine if they were guilty or not.

 

It would be recalled that three lawmakers, Mohammed Garba Gololo (APC, Bauchi); Samuel Ikon (PDP, Akwa Ibom) and Mark Gbillah (APC, Benue), were accused of sexual misconduct by Entwistle in a petition to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, last month.

 

The ambassador had alleged that the actions of the three lawmakers at the International Visitor Leadership Programme in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, from 7th to 13th April, 2016, brought disrepute to the parliament by soliciting for sex from prostitutes and grabbing hotel housekeeper in a bid to rape.