Reps Panel Wants Keke Chair, Prima Mgt Arrested For Shunning Invitation

The House of Representatives committee on public petitions has called for the immediate arrest of the national chairman of Tricycle (Keke) Association of Nigeria, Shamsudeen Apelegun, over failure to appear before it to answer charges of financial misappropriation and abuse of office against him.

A statement by the Head of the Media, Public Petitions Committee, Chooks Oko, said Apelegun had been invited over five times but has yet to show up.

Oko said the committee members unanimously ordered the “Inspector General of police to arrest and bring Apelegun to its next sitting on December 3.”

According to him, a law firm, I.M. Iliyasu and Co., had petitioned Apelegun to the House on behalf of some aggrieved members, but he has yet to answer the charges.

“We are here to ensure Nigerians’ happiness and will thus not condone any act of lawlessness. The Inspector General of Police is at this moment requested to bring Apelegun in person during the next hearing,” Mike Etaba, chairman of the committee, ruled in the statement.

The Head of Media said the committee also threatened to visit the same treatment on the management of Prima Factory on Badagry Road Lagos for their failure to show up at the panel to answer charges against the neglect of one Rafiu Taiwo, a staff of the company who was injured in the workplace but abandoned.

He said the committee warned companies operating in the country to treat Nigerians with dignity and a sense of responsibility.