Wonders shall never cease in this country! Imagine one of the fuel subsidy cabals being investigated, who our ministers point accusing fingers at as the cause of our fuel subsidy problems, sending Valentine cakes as inducement to House of Reps!
The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee on the investigation of the petroleum subsidy regime however, rejected the valentine cake gift from one of the major oil marketers yesterday. Committee staff showed newsmen the hampers containing nine different cakes brought as a gift to the committee by the marketers.
“We were working and suddenly we saw some people who came in with the cakes; when we asked where it came from they told us the oil marketer who ordered it but we have asked them to take it back,” the staff said.
Although the committee staff who do not want to be named refused to disclose the identity of the marketer in question. However, it was gathered that the company was one of the major beneficiaries of the subsidy payments and is likely to be indicted by the panel.
Committee chair Rep. Faruk Lawan (PDP, Kano) had told Daily Trust that oil marketers had made several attempts to induce them but they have refused to be compromised in addition to “tremendous pressure from different quotas.”
[Source: Daily Trust]
Only in Naija where they use cake to bribe! #SMH!
