Reps C’ttee to interrogate alleged PFIPC DG in undisclosed location, date

***Businessman tells c’ttee how he paid N400m for contract

By Gift ChapiOdekina

The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating the purported Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, PFIPC, said yesterday it would interrogate the Director-General of the agency, Aderemi Matthew Adeyemi, in undisclosed location to respect the constitutional principles of separation of powers.

This is as the Managing Director of a private firm, Divine Dopacy Nigeria Limited, Mr. Gbenga Collins, yesterday narrated before the committee how he allegedly paid N400 million to the purported PFIPC DG after being promised a contract to renovate and furnish what was presented to him as the official residence of the agency’s chief executive.

Chairman of the committee, Yusuf Gagdi, who disclosed this at the panel’s sitting, said the National Assembly would respect the constitutional principle of separation of powers and would not seek to override a subsisting judicial order.