PFIPC probe: Why we didn’t interrogate Gbajabiamila – Reps
The House of Representatives has given reasons why it did not invite and question Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu during its probe of the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, PFIPC.
The House ad hoc committee investigating the alleged establishment and operation of the Philippine Foundation International, Inc. (PFIPC) said its first order of business was to find out the source of the alleged agency and not to invite people whose names appeared in documents pertaining to the said agency.
It said its probe was not intended to probe Gbajabiamila but how an agency without legal basis, allegedly merged into the administrative and monetary systems of the Federal Government.
Yusuf Gagdi, Plateau State’s federal lawmaker and chairman of the committee, stated this during an interview program on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday.
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The committee announced the investigation and called on members of the public and relevant institutions to submit memoranda and documents, Gagdi said.
The committee was charged with finding out who created the agency and under what authority, he said.
The committee cleared Gbajabiamila in its report submitted in Abuja on Wednesday, it was learnt.
Recall that the self-styled Director-General of the PFIPC, Adeniyi Adeyemi had accused Gbajabiamila of receiving N400million through proxies in connection with appointments to the fake body.
The President’s Chief of Staff had since denied the allegations and filed a N15 billion defamation suit against Adeyemi.
During the program, Gagdi said the House gave the committee a wide mandate that required it to establish, among other things, whether the PFIPC had any legal backing.
“Actually, the impression people have that the whole of that committee is about Femi Gbajabiamila is not true.
“The House of Representatives has donated so many issues and terms of reference to the committee because of the activities around the unestablished agency,” he said.
