Ahead
of the debate on the oil subsidy report holding on Tuesday (today), the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, on Monday,
said that he was not bothered by threats of impeachment over the
probe.
The report, which was
submitted to the House last Tuesday, elicited public outrage, because it
uncovered a N1.7tn fraud in the fuel subsidy fund.
A national newspaper (not The PUNCH),
on Sunday, reported that some oil firms and government officials were
plotting to sponsor Tambuwal’s impeachment because he and other
principal officers of the House refused to influence the report of the
House committee which uncovered fraud in the management of the fuel
subsidy.
Tambuwal, who spoke in Abuja
through his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Imam Imam, said that he was
focused on transparent leadership even as the House described the
impeachment plot as laughable.
The
Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Publicity, Mr. Zakari
Mohammed, on Sunday, said there was no reason to have Tambuwal removed.
In
an interview with journalists in Abuja, the speaker’s spokesman said
Tambuwal was “unfazed by the stories about impeachment or no
impeachment.”
According to him, the
speaker is very focused on transparent leadership and self-less service
which he promised Nigerians when he was elected.
He said that Tambuwal’s determination and vision as encapsulated in his legislative agenda were well on course.
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