The House of Representatives ad-hoc
committee on the investigation of the
petroleum subsidy regime yesterday
rejected a valentine cake gift from one of
the major oil marketers.
Committee staff showed newsmen hampers
containing nine different cakes brought as a
gift to the committee by the marketers.
“We were working and suddenly we saw
some people who came in with the cakes;
when we asked where it came from they
told us the oil marketer who ordered it but
we have asked them to take it back,” the
staff said.
Although the committee staff who do not
want to be named refused to disclose the
identity of the marketer in question to our
reporter, Daily Trust gathered that the
company was one of the major beneficiaries
of the subsidy payments and is likely to be
indicted by the panel.
Committee chair Rep. Faruk Lawan (PDP,
Kano) had told Daily Trust that oil marketers
had made several attempts to induce them
but they have refused to be compromised in
addition to “tremendous pressure from
different quotas.”
Also, Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal had
come under serious pressure from the
Presidency and the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) according to sources
in the National Assembly.
The panel which rounded up public hearing
last week is now processing the hundreds
of volumes of documents it received from
different stake holders.
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