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Thursday 14 June 2012

Lawan vs Otedola: Ten lawmakers to face police panel

As police Special Task Force (STF) continues its investigation on the alleged $620,000 bribery allegation between the Chairman Zenon Oil and House of Representatives Chairman Ad Hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, Hon. Farouk Lawan, ten more Lawmakers may be invited by the Police investigative panel, “Daily Post” learnt yesterday. This was based on the audio and video tapes tendered by Otedola to the security agents and which was shown to some key members of the House. In the said video and audio tapes, Lawan was said to have indicted a lawmaker where he allegedly linked Otedola with the legislator on the said transaction. According to a police source confirmed that: “Yes, we may invite more lawmakers, but we want to hear from Lawan first; that is the logical order. Let everybody talk to him to report by Thursday or else it may be a different story. “From the tape, the negotiation was higher Otedola did not start video-taping, until when the rate was reduced to $5million. Later Otedola reduced it to $3million. “There was another interesting aspect where Otedola told Lawan that the balance of the $3million was ready and the oil baron was asked to fly in the balance. “Otedola said as soon as he got to Abuja , he would call Lawan but the
lawmaker could be heard loudly saying: ‘It is possible we might be in the chamber but I will give you the number of a trusted hand… (A member of the House). “The said member, who was a union activist before his election, was said to have come from a Yoruba speaking area in the North-Central zone of the country.” Meanwhile, the House of Representatives Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal has rejected a plea by security agents to help retrieve the $620,000 cash businessman Femi Otedola gave a lawmaker, Farouk Lawan. Tambuwal is said to have rejected the request because, according to sources, “he does not want to be roped in”. “Daily Post” gathered that the Speaker was suspecting the reason why security agencies were mounting pressure on him to get the cash from Lawan. A legislative aide said: “The Speaker turned down the request because security agencies might come up with a theory that Lawan kept the bribe with Tambuwal. “Although the security agencies were not happy with the Speaker’s attitude, the man said as a lawyer he has enough experience to know what could happen when you are turning in evidence.

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