Nigeria: Speaker dissolves joint committee probing Dangote/oil sector feud after Rep Ikenga’s alleged hijacking of investigation — Africa Links 24

…As Rep. Ikenga allegedly boasts of paying $1.7m to be made House Committee Chairman

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajuddeen, has dissolved the current ad-hoc Joint Downstream and Midstream Committee investigating the importation of adulterated petroleum products, the non-availability of crude oil for domestic refineries, and other energy security issues.

A statement by the House spokesman, Rep. Akin Rotimi, said the decision was taken at the committee’s…