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Ambassador of the United States to Nigeria, James Entwistle, is to present video proof against the three individuals from the House of Representatives on Thursday when Ossai-led Committee told to look into the claimed sexual misconduct   starts open hearing. The three house of representatives members, charged with the offense include,  Mohammed Garba Gololo (APC, Bauchi); Samuel Ikon (PDP, Akwa Ibom) and Mark Gbillah (APC, Benue).

 Entwistle had in a request to Dogara, claimed that the activities of the three lawmakers at the International Visitor Leadership Program in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, from April 7 to 13, 2016, was unethical for people of that calibre in the parliament. The Ambassador had charged that the Representatives requested for sex from whores and attemted rape of a hotel maid in an offer to assault. Ikon, Gololo and Gbillah dependably accumulated that the board of trustees had not been  able  to sit in light of the fact that some of them had gone  to Mecca for the Ramadan. 

We also found out  that the board of trustees chose not to invite the hotel management  as  witnesses because the ambassador who released the information , through a letter to the speaker, Yakubu Dogara, is  said to have all the evidence to prove the case against the three accused lawmakers.

 Aside from the US Ambassador who will provide evidence, the council likewise stretched out invitation to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema, Committee for the Defense of Human Rights, the three accused officials and additionally the other seven individuals that travelled with the accused lawmakers .  Chairman of the board, Ossai, said the council chose not to invite the administrators of the hotel where the asserted sex offense occurred on the grounds that it trusted the Ambassador would provide the essential video proof on the case. He included: "When I am given a vocation, I do it tirelessly. I don't trade off anything. My reputation and the reputation of the House is in question." Recall that the Speaker, Dogara, while initiating the Ossai-led  Ethics Committee alongside that of  Foreign Affairs after the House deliberation  on Tuesday, June 21, commanded it to research the culpability of the three individuals required in the asserted sexual misconduct. 

He portrayed the task as an intense one, since numerous individuals had effectively made their decision that the three accused legislators were blamable. He, nonetheless, expressed that "the standard in the US is that an accused is accepted as pure until proved  guilty and that is the same standard in Nigeria.

 Any one who has proof can now see the board of trustees." Let the US Ambassador produce the video proof—Nkem-Abonta, Mrakpor Also remarking, the member representing Ukwa Federal Constituency of Abia State, Uzoma Nkem-Abonta requested that the Ambassador  should present  any video proof he had before the council. He said: "Let him bring the video tape so that the entire world will see it. I believe that if that is valid, that he had the video prove, our legislators did not act well." Also remarking, Onyemaechi Joan Mrakpor, PDP, Delta, said she might not want to predict the board of trustees or any proof the Ambassador's claim  until everything was made open. She said: "That is his case, he ought to give the confirmation. The general population (the three legislators) are alive to display their own particular clarifications or confirmation."