The government of United States has renounced the visas of Samuel Ikon (PDP, Akwa Ibom), Mohammed Gololo (APC, Bauchi) and Mark Gbillah (APC, Benue), the three members of the house of representatives all pictured above, accused of alleged sexual misconduct while on an official assignment in Cleveland, USA in April 2016.
In the petition filed by James Entwistle, the US Ambassador to Nigeria and sent to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, the US government alleged that while the lawmakers lodged at a Cleveland Hotel to attend the International Visitors Leadership Program, Honorable Gololo grabbed the housekeeper of the hotel they lodged in and solicited for sex while the other two lawmakers asked the hotel parking lot attendants to help them get prostitutes.
For their misconducts, the US government has cancelled their visas, denying them access into the United States.
However, the lawmakers have denied the allegations. Gololo, one of the affected lawmakers has even threatened to sue the US government for character defamation.
Meanwhile Yakubu Dogara, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has set up a panel to look into the matter.
Photo credit: Sahara reporters
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