Nigerian lawmakers accused of soliciting for sexual gratification while in the United States have been exonerated by the House of Representatives.
The three lawmakers, Mohammed Gololo (AP-Bauchi); Mark Gbillah (APC-Benue) and Samuel Ikom (PDP-Akwa Ibom), were alleged to have solicited for sex in the US while attending International Visitors Leadership Programme in Cleveland, Ohio.
The US Ambassador James Entwistle, threatened after the incident to tender video evidence against the accused on Thursday, July 13, 2016 when Ossai Ossai Committee assigned to probe the incident would open public hearing.
The public hearing never came to pass but today, the House Committee on Ethics and Privileges chaired by Nicholas Ossai (PDP-Delta) said the lawmakers were cleared for want of evidence.
“Rep. Mohammed Gololo, Rep. Mark Gbillah and Rep. Samuel Ikom are cleared of and exonerated from the allegations leveled against them by the US Ambassador to Nigeria in his June 9, 2016 letter to Speaker for want of evidence.
“In the light of the foregoing, the Minister of Foreign Affairs should engage the US Ambassador to Nigeria with a view to finding a seamless resolution of the domestic fall out of this unfortunate incident as it relates to the lawmakers,’’ Ossai said.
