Pascal Arogorn Ibe
The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly , Mudashiru Obasa, is in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission responding to allegations of fraud , Themselves.
The spokesman for the EFCC , Wilson Uwujaren , told our correspondent that Obasa was invited and he honoured the invitation at the Lagos zone office of the commission on Thursday.
“ He was invited, not arrested. He is responding to questions, ” Uwujaren said .
Obasa, who is a two – time Speaker of the House , has been facing several allegations of corruption.
The speaker had some months ago appeared before the House panel of enquiry on the corruption allegations levelled against him .
While Obasa denied most of the allegations , he admitted that N 80 million as estacode was approved for the training of the wives of 20 lawmakers in Dubai.
“ We gave N 4m to each of the participants for air tickets , hotels, feedings and local travel . Air ticket to Dubai alone costs about N 2m . Some of these allegations were raised for a crusade to get the Speaker out of office .
“ The House of Assembly is above common standard of excellence and we have to train people, and this comes at a cost . Learning is not cheap and I have never collected N 80m for estacode at a go before, ” he said .
The House committee subsequently cleared him , which sparked protests among several anti -corruption group.
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