Nigeria: Otedola Rejects Secret Probe

Investigation of the $620,000 subsidy probe bribery took a new dimension yesterday when alleged bribe giver Femi Otedola refused to testify in a secret hearing before the House of Representatives ethics committee.

Otedola demanded that the panel sticks to its initial pledge to hold a public session, just days after the alleged bribe taker Farouk Lawan made his own submission behind closed doors.

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