Mr James Entwistle, the United States Ambassador to Nigeria has written a petition to the Speaker of the House of Representative, Hon Yakubu Dogara, stating that some members of the House of the Reps who recently visited the United States on an official programme, attempted to rape a hotel housekeeper, and that they also solicited for prostitutes.

According to the New Telegraph which obtained the letter, the accused members were among the team who attended the just concluded International Visitor Leadership Program in Cleveland, Ohio.

The accused people are: Hon. Mohammed Garba Gololo (APC, Bauchi), Hon. Samuel Ikon (PDP, Akwa Ibom) and Hon. Mark Gbillah (APC, Benue).

Read Entwistle’s letter:

“It is with regret that I must bring to your attention the following situation. Ten members of the Nigerian National Assembly recently travelled to Cleveland, Ohio as participants in the International Visitor Leadership Programme on good governance. We received troubling allegations regarding the behaviour of three members of the delegation to the U.S. Government’s flagship professional exchange programme.

The U.S. Department of State and the Cleveland Council on World Affairs received reports from employees of the Cleveland hotel where the representatives stayed, alleging the representatives engaged in the following behaviour: Mohammed Garba Gololo allegedly grabbed a housekeeper in his hotel room and solicited her for sex. While the housekeeper reported this to her management, this incident could have involved local law enforcement and resulted in legal consequences for Representative Gololo.

Mark Terseer Gbillah and Samuel Ikon allegedly requested hotel parking attendants assist them to solicit prostitutes.

The U.S. Mission took pains to confirm these allegations and the identities of the individuals with the employees of the hotel in Cleveland.

The conduct described above left a very negative impression of Nigeria, casting a shadow on Nigeria’s National Assembly, the International Visitor Leadership Program, and to the American hosts’ impression of Nigeria as a whole.

Such conduct could affect some participants’ ability to travel to the United States in the future.”

While the majority of Nigerian visitors to the United States do behave appropriately, even a few Nigerians demonstrating poor judgement leads to a poor impression of the Nigerian people generally, though it is far from accurate. Such incidents jeopardise the ability of future programming and make host institutions and organisations less likely to welcome similar visits in the future.

In addition, most of the members of this group reacted very negatively to my deputy when she brought this matter to their attention, further calling into question their judgement and commitment to the goals of the International Visitor Leadership Programme.

This leads us to question whether to include National Assembly members for other similar programmes in the future.

I request, in the strongest possible terms, you share this message with members of the National Assembly so they understand the seriousness of these issues, and the potential consequences of their actions, not only for themselves as individuals, but also for the future of such programmes designed to benefit Nigeria.”

Ten Nigerian lawmakers visited Cleveland, Ohio on the invitation of the US government to attend the International Visitor Leadership Program which held between April 7 and 13, 2016.


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Nigeria we hail thee!
Taking the corruption fight to USA

Nawa ooo.... This same Nigeria

Tufiakwa! Unbelievable. Na which kain country I even find myself.

Tell him to shut the hell up. Is this the diplomatic manner to handle such a delicate issue. He can come back when he can prove it.

Does he have tapes of these molestations or solicitations. Nonsense people.

Coko my man! So you dey hia too! Our fgik rep don dey accused too! I just hope they will be able to defend this disgraceful accusation!

Na them.
Ndi ofe mmanu and Boko haram kinsmen destroying the image of this country since 1960