Vanguard newspaper has reported that competent sources reveled to its reporters in Abuja, yesterday, that influential people, including traditional rulers and a former president have been recruited by those indicted by the report to save them from public embarrassment and especially the criminal prosecution which has been recommended by the Farouk Lawan led-Ad-hoc Committee.
A Principal officer of the House who spoke with Vanguard yesterday said ‘the speaker of the House of Representatives has come under intense pressure from most unlikely quarters, including some
prominent traditional rulers who have been calling to say that he should find a way of watering down the report so that friends of the government would not be unduly exposed’.
A member of the Committee who spoke with Vanguard yesterday said ‘more profound revelations would be unearthed when the report is submitted to the House of Representatives today (Wednesday) or Tomorrow ( Thursday) as the money involved in the scandal is in the neighbourhood of half a Trillion Naira’.
According to the member, ‘since the draft report of one of the consultants engaged for the writing of the final report was released, the chairman of the committee, Faruk Lawan has been under intense pressure from top government officials, including some top notch members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. We want to submit this report to the House as soon as possible and leave the final decision with the House to take.
“What we discovered to have been paid to some marketers who did not supply fuel or who under supplied is more than N500billion. And the companies that are involved in this unwholesome practice are more than one hundred. Nigerians will be shocked when the final report is laid before the House soon” the member who does not want to be quoted told Vanguard.
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