No lawmaker being investigated for forging certificate – House

monjola sotubo

July 26, 2016 1:48 PM

The House made the denial via a statement released by Chairman, House Committee on Information, Honourable Gboyega Aribisogan.

Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state

The Ekiti State House of Assembly has denied reports that that

The House made the denial via a statement released by Chairman, House Committee on Information, Honourable Gboyega Aribisogan.

The statement reads:

It has come to the attention of the Ekiti State House of Assembly that some enemies of the state, in their unrelenting bid to discredit the state government, have alleged, through an apparently-sponsored story in The Punch newspaper of Monday, July 25, that nine of the 26 honourable members of the House are under investigation for alleged certificate forgery.

This is clearly a careless and baseless allegation, considering that all the members of the House were duly screened by relevant government agencies prior to their election into the House. Besides, it is suspect that the said story merely quoted a nebulous and faceless source and it appeared only in the said newspaper.

No member of this House has been invited for questioning by any government agency over issue of certificates. The records of academic qualification, as presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), of all the members are available in their respective schools.

For the avoidance of doubt, members of the House are credible people drawn from different professional sectors and they have made marks in their respective fields. This is a House that has accountant, journalists, medical doctor, retired civil servants, technocrats, among others as members.

That the rumour that the lawmakers were in hiding trailed the evil allegation is further proof that it is the figment of the imagination of the authors. We converged on the Assembly complex today for our routine parliamentary meeting today without any fear, let or hindrance.

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No amount of mudslinging and evil shenanigan of the enemies of the state government would make us cringe. We are unwavering in our resolve to assist the Ayodele Fayose-led government in its effort to clear the mess that the APC-led government of Dr Kayode Fayemi has made of the state.

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