Nigeria Police Ready to Charge Farouk Lawan
Police are finalising plans to arraign Farouk Lawan, who was suspended from the chairmanship of the Ad-Hoc Committee on the Monitoring of the Fuel Subsidy regime, for taking a bribe.
Farouk Lawan.
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Scandal - Missing U.S.$620,000 Bribe Raises Dust
Vanguard, 13 August 2012
Indications emerged, yesterday, that the difficulty in retrieving the $620,000 bribe money allegedly given to the former chairman of the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Sagay, Others Seek Prosecution of Otedola, Farouk Lawan
Leadership, 13 August 2012
Prominent lawyers, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Mr Abubakar Malami (SAN), Mr Alasa Ismaila and Mr Wahab Shittu have argued that if the federal government does not want to sound… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Subsidy Scam - Activist Faults Police On Lawan's Trial
This Day, 6 August 2012
A human rights activist, Mr. Kayode Ajulo has disagreed with an alleged decision of the police authorities to put on hold trial of the former Chairman of the House of… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Police Set to Prosecute Lawan Over U.S.$62 Million Bribe
This Day, 3 August 2012
The police are finalising plans to arraign the suspended Chairman, House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on the Monitoring of the Fuel Subsidy regime, Hon. Farouk Lawan, for… Read more »
InFocus
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Rep. Farouk Lawan has for the first time given his account of what transpired between him and Femi Otedola in the infamous bribery saga over fuel subsidy probe. Read more »
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An audio tape said to be a recorded conversion between Farouk Lawan and Chief Femi Otedola over alleged bribery has been aired on television. Lawan is accused of collected $620,000 ... Read more »
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There are allegations that Farouk Lawan, chairperson of the House committee that probed the fuel subsidy, was involved in a U.S.$3 million bribe scam. Read more »