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Tayo Alasoadura

Tayo Alasoadura

How I resisted huge bribe meant to kill PIGB – Senator

byJosiah Oluwole
September 25, 2017
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The Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream), Tayo Alasoadura, has said he resisted pressures from ”high places” who tried to ensure that the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIGB, did not see the light of the day.

The original Petroleum Industry Bill before the Senate was split into smaller bills including PIGB to ensure easy passage.

Mr. Alasoadura said he rejected huge sums of money offered as bribe to frustrate the passage of the bill which had been in the Senate for more than 13 years.

The senator representing Ondo Central said he declined to collect the bribe because he was conscious of the kind of legacy he wanted to leave behind for his children and grandchildren.

Mr. Alasoadura, however, failed to mention those who attempted to bribe him.

He said the passage of the bill by the Senate had made him proud as a federal lawmaker and as a Nigerian

Mr. Alasoadura spoke at his constituency office in Akure, the Ondo state capital, after receiving a commendation letter from the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Ondo State Council.

“The politics behind it was more than what you had to do to get the bill passed,” he said.

“In fact, there was a day I was abused by a set of people who came to lobby me for the bill not to be passed.

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“They offered me money but I said no, that the little money I have that God has provided for me is enough to cater for my well-being and that of my family.

“The politics, lobbying and so on from those who did not want the bill to see the light of the day was terrible. Unless you can withstand pressure, you won’t be able to do what I did. By the time we were to take the bill to the floor of the Senate for passage, we booked for three days because we thought it would be stormy. But to the glory of God, the bill was passed in two hours.

“This is because I did a lot of underground work like meeting people, convincing them about the need for the bill, especially people who were not satisfied with some areas in the bill.

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“We then gave them reasons to believe that everything had been taken care of in the bill and that nobody would be shortchanged. At the end of the day, before the final passage of the bill, 52 senators had signed.”

The senator was optimistic that the bill would soon be passed in the House of Representatives.

Mr. Alasoadura said the Senate was in the process of passing three other bills relating to petroleum resources which he listed as Administration Bill, Host Community Bill and the Fiscal Bill.

“We want to run as fast as we can and see if we can finish (pass) all the bills before the end of this year because next year when politics starts and we may not be able to have much concentration as we are doing now,” he said.

The senator, who said the country was not mature enough to have state police, disclosed that the Senate would revisit the devolution of powers bill earlier rejected by it.

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