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.
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
N80 million as estacode was approved for the training of the wives of 20
lawmakers in Dubai.
“We gave N4m to each of the participants for air tickets,
hotels, feedings and local travel. Air ticket to Dubai alone costs about N2m.
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 N80m for estacode at a go before,” he
said.
The House committee subsequently cleared him, which sparked
protests among several anti-corruption groups.
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