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Monday 11 June 2012

Subsidy Report: Jonathan’s friend caught up in $600,000 bribery scandal

More facts have emerged on how an oil firm indicted as one of the beneficiaries of fuel subsidy by the House of Representatives, Ad Hoc Committee on oil subsidy’s report, allegedly bribed a prominent member of the committee (namewitheld) with $600,000. According to (The Nation newspaper), the owner of the Oil firm who is also a close associate to President Goodluck Jonathan, allegedly gave the bribe to the committee member at Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport in Abuja. The $600,000 was said to be part of the alleged $3million planned by the oil chief to bribe members of the subsidy committee in order to remove his company’s name from the culprits list. Already, security agencies have begun proper investigations on the alleged bribery allegation leveled against the Subsidy committee headed by Hon.Lawan Farouk, according to
a police’s source. The source added that “security agencies have retrieved the call logs of the committee member and the businessman who is described as one the largest contributors to the campaign fund of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011. “The video of the bribe transaction may be aired on some television stations and YouTube soon”. But, a top official of the House who preferred anonymity claimed that it was the accused committee’s member who exposed the oil baron of making an attempt to bribe him with $600,000. The official added that ” when the vocal member from the North-West region attempted to present the $600,000 publicly at the House plenary, he was prevailed upon by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) not to do so in order not to embarrass the ruling party. “He only informed the Chairman of the House Committee on Narcotics and Financial Crimes about the bribe offer”.

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