According to
Sunday Punch, the three members of the House of Representatives exonerated of
sexual misconduct allegations leveled against them by the United States Embassy
in Nigeria have picked lawyers to handle their $1billion suit against the US
government.
The lawyers
are to file the suit in the US, while the lawmakers will continue to
communicate with them through electronic means from Nigeria, since they are
barred for now from entering the US.
The affected
members are House Deputy Chairman, Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream);
Mr. Terse Mark-Gbillah, elected on the platform of the All Progressives
Congress in Benue; Mr. Samuel Ikon of
the Peoples Democratic Party in Akwa Ibom; and Mr. Mohammed Garba-Gololo, also
of the APC in Bauchi State.
A former US
ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. James Entwistle, had accused the three of sexual
misconduct during a visit to the US last year April, prompting the Nigerian
legislature to call for an investigation.
The House
exonerated the lawmakers in October 2016 after a report by its Joint Committees
on Ethics/Privileges and Foreign Relations, found no wrongdoing on their part.
Mark-Gbillah,
who spoke for the lawmakers, told SUNDAY PUNCH that the lawyers had been
identified and that efforts were on to finalise consultations on the suit.
He neither
gave the names of the lawyers nor the firms from where they would be hired.
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