Simon Arabo had on Thursday pointed out that the abusive language used on Mr. Otedola had brought the “image of the House to disrepute.”
Arabo also deplored the refusal of the committee to hear Otedola’s testimony in public, arguing that there was no section of the House rules which required that it must sit in secret.
observed that Arabo’s protest on the floor forced the presiding Deputy Speaker, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, to ask the Chief Whip of the House, Isiaka Bawa, to investigate the matter and report back to the House for appropriate sanction.
The aggrieved lawmaker expressed concern that the committee suddenly decided to sit in camera after the House had already told Nigerians that the hearing would be in the open. “The modus operandi of the committee is bringing the House into disrepute”, he stressed.
“What will it cost the committee if Otedola testifies in the open? There is nowhere in the House rules that says that Otedola must be heard in secret,” Arabo added.
It would be recalled that the Ethics committee had invited Otedola on Tuesday to testify in the ongoing investigation into the $620,000 bribery allegation he made against the suspended Chairman, House Committee on Monitoring of Subsidy Regime, Mr. Farouk Lawan.
Lawan had earlier testified before the committee in camera but Otedola who appeared before the committee on Tuesday declined to follow suit, insisting that he would only talk in an open session where Nigerians will have access to everything going on live.
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