“Its A Hatchet Job” – Obono Obla Reacts To House Of Reps Call For Sack

The Chairman, Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery
of Public Property, Chief Okoi Obono Obla on Friday dismissed calls by
the House of Representatives for his dismissal as a ploy to derail
investigations into corrupt practices.

Obla said recent attacks
against him, over an alleged forged WAEC certificate since he commenced
investigations into the activities and finances of some senators and
members of the House of Representatives, were premeditated.

He
said: “The call by the House of Representatives on Mr President to sack
me for alleged certificate forgery is hogwash, balderdash and absolute
rubbish!

“It is a hatchet job by agents and merchants of
corruption and graft that have looted the country for the past 19 years
to intimidate, hound and harass me.

“They are agents of looters
that I have investigated. Is the house of representatives the police?”
he queried in a statement in Lagos.

On the allegation of certificate forgery, Obla stated that he graduated from the university over 30 years ago.

“I
left university 30 years ago. I graduated and went to law school. I
left Law School in 1990 and was called to Bar in June 1991.

“The university screened me and awarded me a degree after deeming me worthy and after fulfilling the entry requirements.

“I wrote JAMB and scored excellent grades in all the subjects I wrote.

“It is a blackmail contrived by looters and their agents using the House of Representatives,” he said.

PoliticsNGR gathered that Obla has also filed a lawsuit against the House of Representatives over the matter.

He
is challenging the power of the House of representatives to conduct
such an investigation, adding that the report is a hatchet job with a
premeditated mission, illegal and unconstitutional.

According to
him, the call for his sack was a reaction to the information released by
his panel forwarding the names of those under its investigation to the
Nigeria Immigration Service.

He said the information required the
Service to implement the travel ban stipulated by the Executive Order
No 6 of 2018 for those under trial and investigation for corruption and
abuse of office.

“I must be a genius to pass through University
and Law School, practice law for more than two decades without a school
certificate.

“The whole issue is really laughable but it is sad the extent to which corruption can fight back,” he said.