The House of Representatives ad-hoc committee on the investigation of the petroleum subsidy regime yesterday rejected a valentine cake gift from one of the major oil marketers.

Committee staff showed newsmen hampers containing nine different cakes brought as a gift to the committee by the marketers.

“We were working and suddenly we saw some people who came in with the cakes; when we asked where it came from they told us the oil marketer who ordered it but we have asked them to take it back,” the staff said.

Although the committee staff who do not want to be named refused to disclose the identity of the marketer in question to our reporter, Daily Trust gathered that the company was one of the major beneficiaries of the subsidy payments and is likely to be indicted by the panel.

Committee chair Rep. Faruk Lawan (PDP, Kano) had told Daily Trust that oil marketers had made several attempts to induce them but they have refused to be compromised in addition to “tremendous pressure from different quotas.”

Also, Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal had come under serious pressure from the Presidency and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) according to sources in the National Assembly.

The panel which rounded up public hearing last week is now processing the hundreds of volumes of documents it received from different stake holders.

There is no evidence on any link between the modern romantic connotations of modern Saint Valentine's Day and the rites of the ancient Roman festival, despite many claims by many authors.[20][14] The celebration of Saint Valentine didn't have any romantic connotations until Chaucer's poetry about "Valentines" in the 14th century.[21]

chuks49:

I guess the cake was not well baked. They will surely prefer cake baked with oil bloc.