EMBATTLED
Chairman of the fuel subsidy probe panel in the House of
Representatives, Farouk Lawan, on Thursday surrendered himself to police
for interrogation over the $620,000 bribe he had confessed to receiving
from an oil marketer, Femi Otedola.
The lawmaker was subsequently interrogated and detained along with the Clerk of his committee, Boniface Emenalo.
Lawan arrived at the office of the police
Special Task Force at the Louis Edet House Force headquarters about 4pm,
in company with Emenalo and five lawyers.
The lawmaker was detained briefly before he
was taken to the interrogation room where detectives, led by the
Commissioner of Police in charge of the STF, Ali Ahmadu, quizzed him
four several hours.
As of the time of filing this report, the diminutive legislator was still undergoing questioning.
The police on Wednesday had hinted that
they would declare the lawmaker wanted if he refused to give himself up
for interrogation on the bribery scandal
Otedoda had claimed that Lawan demanded and
received the money, being part of a $3m bribe deal, in order to remove
his Zenon Oil from the list of those indicted in a N1.7trn subsidy rot.
The businessman said Lawan collected
$500,000 in two tranches of $250,000 while he sent Emenalo to collect
$120,000 at a later date.
However, on Monday Lawan, who had denied
receiving the bribe, confessed to have received the bribe but that he
only did so to expose Otedola.
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