The lawyer of Adeniyi Adeyemi, the director-general of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, has asked the House of Representatives’ committee probing the PFIPC scandal to allow Adeyemi to give his testimony in public.
In a statement on Wednesday, Ademola Oyedokun, counsel to Adeyemi, said his client welcomed the decision of the House of Representatives to investigate the PFIPC scandal.
Recently, some officials of the federal government appeared before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the PFIPC controversy and the N1.3 billion allocated to the council in the 2026 Appropriation Act.
During the committee’s hearing last Wednesday, Tunji Disu, inspector-general of Police (IGP), declined to produce Adeyemi before the ad hoc committee, citing that the self-styled director-general is being held in custody on a court order.
The committee had previously asked the IGP to produce Adeyemi during the hearing.
Reacting to the development, the lawyer asked the house of representatives to invoke its
