The House of Representatives joint committee on Ethics and Privileges
and Foreign Affairs, have summoned the US Ambassador to Nigeria, James
Entwistle, to appear before it on Thursday 14th over the alleged sexual
misconduct by some lawmakers during their visit to the US in April this
year.
The US Ambassador had in a letter sent to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara in June, accused three
members of the House, Samuel Ikon (PDP, Akwa Ibom), Mohammed Gololo
(APC, Bauchi) and Mark Gbillah (APC, Benue), of sexual misconduct while
they were on an official assignment in Cleveland, USA .
In the letter, Entwistle alleged that while the lawmakers lodged at
Cleveland Hotel to attend the International Visitors Leadership Program,
Gololo grabbed the housekeeper of the hotel they lodged in and
solicited for sex while the other two lawmakers asked the hotel parking
lot attendants to help them get prostitutes.
Their US visas have since been terminated.
The US Ambassador is expected to appear before the joint committee
members alongside members of the Nation Humanrights Commission and the
three accused lawmakers.
