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NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN NIGERIA INVITES   FORMER PRESIDENT AND HIS DEPUTY.

BY LATI AFEGBUA

 

The Nigerian House of Representatives has invited former President, Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy, Atiku Abubakar, to appear before the Committee on Power and Steel probing the sixteen billion naira allegedly expended on power sector between 1999 and 2007. 

The committee in a separate invitation letters signed by its Clerk Salisu Yaro Ahmed,  asked both the former president and his deputy to appear before it on Monday next week to state their side of the story. 

The invitation is sequel to a lot of allegations and counter allegations leveled against both Chief Obasanjo and Alhaji Atiku during the public hearing, where    oral testimonies were given by both stakeholders, from the public and private sectors.

The Committee had  at its meeting on Tuesday,  22nd  April 2008, unanimously resolved that before submitting its report, it would give  both men  fair hearing by inviting them to   give their  perspective of  what they know, or their role in the execution of projects in the power sector from 1999 to 2007.

 

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