3 Nigerian lawmakers caught attempting to rape US hotel attendant

Abuja - Three Nigerian lawmakers have been
accused of attempted rape and soliciting for
prostitutes while visiting the United States of
America on an official assignment in April 2016,
reports NewsDay.
The three lawmakers are Mohammed Garba
Gololo (APC, Bauchi), Samuel Ikon (PDP, Akwa
Ibom) and Hon. Mark Gbillah (APC, Benue)
The accusation was made by the US
Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle,
Entwistle, in a petition to the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara,
alleged that three lawmakers during their visit
to the US for the International Visitor
Leadership Program in Cleveland, Ohio, lodged
at Cleveland hotel where two of the lawmakers
met with the hotel’s parking lot attendants and
asked for links to prostitutes that would spend
the night with them.
Entwistle in the petition dated June 9, noted
that one of the lawmakers allegedly grabbed a
housekeeper in the hotel room, demanding for
sex.
According to the petition, the housekeeper and
parking lot attendants reported to the hotel
management who then filed a complaint at the
US Mission who investigated the allegations.
The lawmakers have, however, denied the
allegations according to The Brief.
They said the allegations was a calculated
attempt to ridicule the National Assembly.
They stated that the allegations against them
was made a month after they had left the US.
They wonder why they were not questioned
while they were still in America during the
course of their assignment and argued that no
video footage was provided by the hotel
management to back up the claims.
The affected lawmakers have written to the
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Yakubu Dogara, calling for a full scaled
investigation into the allegations.
The accused lawmakers have equally threatened
to seek redress in a court if the ambassador
refuses to retract his allegations
- News 24