Omotayo Alasoadura, chairman, senate committee on petroleum resources (upstream), says he was offered millions of dollars to scuttle the petroleum industry governance bill (PIGB).
Speaking after he received a letter of commendation from the correspondents chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Akure, the Ondo state capital, he said members of the committee in the sixth and seventh national assembly allegedly collected bribe in dollars.
Alasoadura blamed the delay in the passage of the PIGB on the money offered by “powerful Nigerians and some oil companies”.
“They offered me money, but I said no, that the little money that God had provided for me is enough to cater for my wellbeing and that of my family. I was offered millions of dollars. One of them said a former chairman of the committee I head got $10 million to scuttle the bill. I could have taken the money and resigned from the national assembly,” he said.
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I was offered bribe to kill PIB - Chairman committee on petroleum
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