The Lagos state house of assembly has cleared Mudashiru
Obasa, the speaker, of corruption allegations levelled against him.
Obasa had been accused of embezzling public funds and
abusing his office.
SaharaReporters had carried out a thorough investigation on
the speaker who allegedly owns more than 60 bank accounts.
He was accused of using his office to misappropriate funds
and allocate contracts to himself through third party sources, as well as other
acquaintances.
Speaking before the panel on Saturday, Obasa told the
nine-man fact-finding panel chaired by Victor Akande, representative of Ojo
constituency I, that the allegations were untrue.
At the plenary session on Monday, Akande presented the
report of the fact-finding adhoc committee to the house.
While presenting his report on the floor of the house on
Monday, Akande said all the allegations made against Obasa were “frivolous.”
Akande said the speaker followed due process in all his
dealings.
The chairman of the probe panel recommended that Azeez
Sanni, clerk of the house, investigate how documents which led to the
allegations against the speaker leaked.
“We also recommend that the activities of the house should
be digitalised for proper record keeping and monitoring,” Akande said.
“It was then suggested by the committee that a vote of
confidence should be passed in the speaker of the house.
“The speaker did not have multiple accounts with Ecobank,
the BVN ascribed to Wema Bank does not belong to him and the companies
attributed to him in Wema Bank is not correct.”
The recommendations of the committee which cleared Obasa was
put to a voice vote by Sanai Agunbiade, majority leader, and they were
unanimously adopted by the lawmakers.
Obasa was cleared a day after the Human and Environmental
Development Agenda (HEDA) said the probe was a smokescreen.
HEDA had said the panel was made up of Obasa’s loyalists.
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If the accusations is really false then to prove everything he said let him sue Sahara news for that, on the above news, it said thorough investigation by Sahara news, that means they might have not been lying,
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