Rep denies securing committee chairmanship with $1.7m bribe
The member of the House of Representatives, representing Ideato North and South Federal Constituency of Imo State, Ikenga Ugochinyere, has denied claims of bribing the Speaker, Tajudeen Abass, with $1.7 million to be appointed a committee chairman. Ugochinyere, who is the chairman of the House Committee on Downstream Petroleum, made his position known in a statement on Wednesday by his …