The House of Representatives has given reasons why it did not invite and question Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu during its investigation into the controversial Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, PFIPC.
The House ad hoc committee investigating the alleged creation and running of the Philippine Foundation International, Inc. (PFIPC) said its first order of business was to determine the origin of the alleged agency and not to invite people whose names were found in documents related to the said agency.
It stated that its investigation was not designed to focus on Gbajabiamila but on how an agency without a valid legal foundation allegedly integrated into the Federal Government’s administrative and monetary systems.
The chairman of the committee and federal lawmaker from Plateau State, Yusuf Gagdi, said this during an interview program on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday.
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The committee announced the investigation and invited members of the public and relevant institutions to submit memoranda and documents, Gagdi said.
The committee was mandated to find out who created the agency and under what authority, he said.
The committee exonerated Gbajabiamila when it presented its findings in Abuja on Wednesday, it was reported.
Recall that the self-styled Director-General of the PFIPC, Adeniyi Adeyemi accused Gbajabiamila of getting N400million through proxies in relation to appointments to the fake organization.
Since then, the President’s Chief of Staff had denied the allegations and filed a N15 billion defamation suit against Adeyemi.
Speaking during the program, Gagdi said the House gave the committee a wide mandate that required it to establish, among other things, whether the PFIPC had any legal backing.
“In fact, the whole of that committee being perceived as Femi Gbajabiamila is not true.
“The House of Representatives has donated so many issues and terms of reference to the committee due to the activities around the unestablished agency,” he said.
