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‘His Friends Are Fronting As Investigators’ — Group Rubbishes Probe Of Obasa

The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA) has described as a smokescreen the investigation of the Lagos state house of assembly speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, by members of the assembly.
Obasa has been in the thick of things for the past couple of months following multiple corruption allegations levelled against him by Sahara Reporter.
The allegations are results of trenchant and through investigations by Sahara reporter into the financial dealings of the speaker.
The group said the speaker will be let off the hook because he’s being investigated by his friends.
It enjoined the assembly to refrain from assuming the position of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the probe of its speaker.
HEDA maintained that a petition has been submitted to EFCC to investigate Obasa who has been accused of embezzling public funds and abuse of office.
The house of assembly set up a panel to probe the allegations against the speaker following reports of his said misdeeds.
While appearing before the panel, Obasa refuted the allegation, describing it as untrue.
The group made its position known In a letter to the house of assembly following an invitation to the agency to appear before the panel.
HEDA chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, said there was no way justice would be served because the speaker could not be indicted by the same committee that’s peopled by his loyalists.
HEDA said its petition to the EFCC subsists and that the speaker and its panel should not assume they can take over the work of the anti-graft institution.
“The speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, whose second term has been marred in a string of corruption charges is using the house investigation committee as a smokescreen to unchain the speaker,” he said.
“The outcome of the panel is predictable; Obasa will be cleared by his friends fronting as investigators.
“The panel set up by the Lagos state house of assembly is made up of the cronies of the speaker. There is no way justice will be delivered to the people of Lagos whose resources Obasa was said to have pillaged.”
Suraju said his organisation got its invitation to the investigative hearing few hours to the time the panel commenced its proceedings.
He said the house was wrong to have invited his organisation because they did not submit a petition to it.
“Considering the inherent fundamental flaws and procedural defects in the procedure, appointment of the committee, process of invitation and the shenanigans of the committee, we have decided that the committee does not deserve a response from our organisation,” he said.
“Your committee, via our official email address, sent an invitation to our organisation at 6.07pm on Wednesday, at a time when offices had closed, and requested our appearance before a committee at 10.00am the following day.
“A sincere, impartial and independent committee will never send an invitation to an individual and organisation for an appearance at the sitting of the committee with less than 24 hours notice, as was the case in this circumstance.
“The allegations against the speaker are criminal in nature and completely outside the parliamentary power of the assembly. We have directed these petitions to the appropriate law enforcement agencies for their actions.”
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