A high court in Abuja has
adjourned to November the 27th the trial of Farouk Lawan and Boniface Emenalo
over alleged $620, 000 bribes. Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi refused the
application by Lawan’s counsel, Ricky Tarfa, to adjourn the case indefinitely
pending the determination of the appeal before the Appeal Court in Abuja. Lawan
and Emenalo, who were Chairman and Secretary of the House of Representatives
Committee on Fuel Subsidy, were charged by the federal government with
obtaining the sum of $620,000 in bribes from businessman Femi Otedola to remove
his company, Zenon Oil and Gas limited from companies indicted in the fuel
subsidy fraud. Farouk as the Chairman of
the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Probe, was
alleged to have negotiated the sum of $3million as bribe and collected $650,000
from the Chairman of Zenon Oil and Gas Limited, Mr. Femi Otedola. It will be
recalled that constitutional lawyer, Festus Keyamo, entered a 4-count criminal
charge against the lawmaker for allegedly collecting the sum of $3million as
bribe from Mr Otedola.The lawyer had earlier given the Federal Government
a seven day ultimatum to commence the
trial of the lawmaker or he would proceed to court and file charges against
him. I don’t understand how these two are still serving lawmakers despite all
the glaring evidence against them.
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