BREAKING: Supreme Court Upholds 5-Year Jail Term Of Former Nigerian Lawmaker, Farouk Lawan Over $500,000 Bribe
Lawan became tried for receiving $500,000 bribe one day of a legislative probe into the gasoline subsidy regime in 2012.
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has affirmed the judgement of a lower court that sentenced faded Home of Representatives member, Farouk Lawan, to five years imprisonment for receiving a bribe of $500,000 from businessman, Femi Otedola.
Lawan became tried for receiving $500,000 bribe one day of a legislative probe into the gasoline subsidy regime in 2012.
SaharaReporters reported on February 24, 2022, that the Court of Attraction, Abuja Division affirmed the conviction of Farouk Lawan, over the $3 million bribery funds most neatly-favored in opposition to him by the federal authorities.
Lawan became the chairman of the Home of Representatives advert hoc committee probing the multi-billion naira petrol subsidy fraud in 2012.
He became accused of tense $3 million from Femi Otedola to rob away Zenon Petroleum and Gas Small (Otedola’s faded company) from the record of oil companies allegedly all for the petrol subsidy fraud in 2012.
Lawan, who became arraigned on seven counts of bribery by the Fair Immoral Practices and A host of Connected Offences Price (ICPC), became supposed to fetch smooth a $500,000 bribe from Otedola.
The associated price became later amended to about a counts.
It also reported that Justice Angela Otaluka, of the Federal Capital Territory Excessive Court in Apo, on June 21, 2021, convicted the accused on all three counts and sentenced him to seven years’ imprisonment.
Nonetheless, turning in judgment within the charm filed by the convict, the court discharged and acquitted the faded lawmaker on two out of the three counts on which he became convicted.