Daily Trust (Abuja)

Nigeria: Subsidy Bribe - I Will Be Vindicated - Farouk

Embattled former chairman of the House of Representatives ad hoc Committee on Subsidy Probe Rep. Farouk Lawan (PDP, Kano) said he will be vindicated over allegations of $620,000 bribe levelled against him by an oil baron, Femi Otedola.

Otedola who chairs Zenon Petroluem and Gas Limited had alleged that he gave Lawan $620,000 bribe to clear his firm.

Lawan, who attended House plenary session for the first time since the scandal broke out yesterday, told newsmen that his last Friday's suspension from committee chairmanship by the House was in order.

According to him, "whatever decision taken by the House, I believe is meant to ensure the credibility of the institution."

The House yesterday said Otedola "is as guilty as Lawan" over the bribery allegations.

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  • Garden-City Boy
    Jun 23 2012, 20:37

    When Farouk talks about his vindication, we should all listen up. How many royal caliphate holy cows, with the catalog of horrific crimes under their belts, have ever been punished? Some of them are known murderers who committed gruesome genocide. They were rather rewarded, honored, glorified and adored as heroes who kept Nigeria and gave us our lives, not for perpetuating Hausa/Fulani parasitic oligarchy. Their crimes are glamorized, and the Southern survivors of their brutality left to leak their wounds. The nation's important landmarks and monuments are named after fiends and butchers. Is it a surprised that the society that has glamorized evil deeds now reaps so bountifully from a morbid harvest for collective connivance? For the records, Farouk Lawan sees himself as one more messianic islamic Hausa/Fulani Robin Hood; he comes, and sees and conquers. He owes it a sacred duty to his clan to cart back to the Arewa homestead the booty from a subjugate Nigerian territory. While decent society is jeering, his kinsmen are cheering, howbeit hushed. This is very much in tune with the rapacious Uthman Dan Fodio conquistador mindset; theirs is to plunder, pillage and devastate with arrogant impunity. Who is home to stop them anyway? Only yesterday, it was on the news that "A Jos High Court, yesterday, sentenced a 26-year-old man, Obinna John, to death by hanging for robbing a woman of N1,705. The convict was also said to have robbed his victim, one Dorothy Olaniyi, of two rolls of sachet peak milk, valued at N400." There was no word on any use of violence or offensive weapons in that report to warrant the outrageous death sentence in the first place. Yet that young man must die by hanging. We all know that it is not necessarily for the crime of stealing sachets of peak milk; it is for his misfortune of being Igbo. His Hausa/Fulani contemporary would not even be arrested, let alone detained or prosecuted. There is no doubt the young man went through the ordeal of cruel detention without a bail option, and then torture prior to the ridiculous ‘court’ verdict. Bail is forever guaranteed for Hausa/Fulani holy cows. As for Farouk? Just forget all about that, for he will surely be ‘vindicated‘. That is why his assertion must be regarded as a given. The thieving, princely Hausa/Fulani Robin Hood knows exactly what he is talking about. For Nigerian laws are made for the victimization for “NYAMIRIS like John Obinna and Southern Kafiris who steal N400 worth of peak milk sachets; the Farouk Lawans who milk the nation to peak dryness get rancorous ovation for bringing home the loot, as monuments and landmarks are quickly chosen and named in their honor. What about trying on ‘FAROUK LAWAN COLLEGE OF ECONOMIC STUDIES, BAYERO UNIVERSITY’ for size? Would you not notice a perfect fit? One would be inclined to think it would be easier to vindicate Al Capone, Billy the Kid or Jack the Ripper than a Farouk Lawan. That is how it would be in decent lands. In our polluted, run-down system, the kleptomaniac dreams vindication and gets it.