Those Calling For My Sack Are Agents And Merchants Of Corruption

Those Calling For My Sack Are Agents And Merchants Of Corruption - Obono-Obla

....Fires back at House of Representatives resolution

The Chairman, Special Presidential Investigation Panel, SPIP, Okoi Obono-Obla has hit back at the House of Representatives saying the allegedly certificate forgery and corruption is hogwash, balderdash and absolute rubbish.

It will be recalled that the House of Representatives also urged the president to dissolve the panel headed by Obla, requesting that the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, be effectively utilized to perform the function meant for it in the anti-corruption fight.

"It is a hatchet job by agents and merchants of corruption and graft that have looted our country for the past 19 years to intimidate, hound and harass me! But it will not work for them! It is even ridiculous to make such a call, Obono-obla said.

He went further; "They are agents of looters that I have investigated. Is the House of Representatives the Police? I left University 30 years ago. I graduated and went to Law School. I left Law School in 1990 and was called to Bar in June 1991.

"The university screened me and awarded me a Degree after deeming me worthy and after fulfilling the entry requirements. I wrote JAMB and scored excellent grades in all the subjects I wrote.

"It is a blackmail contrived by looters and their agents using the House of Representatives. I have even filled a suit in Court challenging the power of the House of Representatives to conduct such an investigation. But characteristically, the agents of impunity still went ahead to conduct their so call investigation.

"It is a hatchet job with a premeditated mission. So the so called report is illegal and unconstitutional.

Obono-obla further reiterated; "Let me inform Nigerians how this people work. All the members of the House of Representatives Committee that purportedly investigated me were cohorts of some members of the National Assembly I was investigating. One of them openly boasted that for daring to investigating some powerful people in the National Assembly I will be dealt with. It is a reaction to my press conference early this week where I informed Nigerians that my Panel has forwarded the names of those under it investigation to the Nigeria Immigration Service to implement the travel ban stipulated by the Executive Order No 6 of 2018 for those under trial and investigation for corruption and abuse of office.

"I must be a genius to pass through University and Law School, practice Law for more than two decades without a “school certificate”. The whole issue is really laughable but it is sad the extent to which corruption can fight back, Obono-obla concluded.

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