by Dolapo Adelana

Lanre Shittu, the car dealer in the fake car documents scandal involving Senate President, Bukola Saraki has said the bulletproof Range Rover car was sold to the National Assembly and not to the Senate president.

Shittu, who appeared before the Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges said the car was initially bought for the company use but he was later approached by Wale Tinubu of Oando.

On the authenticity of the car documents, the car importer, Tokunbo Akindele said they only found out they were fake in 2017.

In 2015, we imported the bullet proof SUV for the company use, we later changed our minds, as we got an alternative.

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We received the car in 2015, the car was not imported for Senator @bukolasaraki – Mr. Akindele

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So, what is the correlation btw the Car, the company & the National Assembly. Senator Matthew Uroghide asks the agent.

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Senator Anyanwu, chairman Senate Committe on Ethics asked if @bukolasaraki is a car importer or imported any car in his name.

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Senator Alasoadura asked that did @bukolasaraki import the jeep or did he ask any dealer 2 import on his behalf? Or was it by the @NGRSenate

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Senate President @bukolasaraki appears before Senate Committee on Ethics and public petitions on allegation of non Payment of duty for jeep

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The committee demands for document pertaining to the SUV and it is tendered by the clearing company.

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The Issue: "Senator Ali Ndume raised that bullet proof SUV allegedly belonging to the Senate President was cleared with fake documents"

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We buy our cars from deales, & dealers buy from the importers, @bukolasaraki has nothing to do with docs or SUV – Sen Gobir

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The agent, Mr Akindele says their company only found out that the clearing docs given to them by @CustomsNG were fake in 2017.

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The SUV was consigned to Lanre Shittu in October, 2016. Mr Wale Tibubu approached me on how they can sell the Vehicle" – Lanre Shittu

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We facilitated the sales of the Vehicle to the National Assembly. We never sold any vehicle to @bukolasaraki – Lanre Shittu

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We requested for SUV docs from Mr Wale Tibubu of Oando, and we discovered they had fake documents from @CustomsNG – Mr Lanre Shittu

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