Lawan-Otedola Gate: Report To Be Submitted Soon…Committee May Exonerate Lawan

The nation’s political atmosphere might witness a re-awakening next week as indications emerged that the House of Representatives Committee on Ethics and Privileges that probed the allegations by Diesel mogul, Femi Otedola that the suspended chairman, House Ad Hoc Committee on the Monitoring of the Subsidy Regime, Hon. Farouk Lawan, collected bribe during its much publicized hearing, might submit its report any time after the House resumes plenary on November 8.

The report, we gathered, might exonerate the beleaguered soft spoken lawmaker, who was also suspended as the chairman, House Committee on Education.
The House in June had directed its Committee on Ethics and Privileges to probe the allegation that Lawan and the scribe of the committee, Mr. Boniface Emalano, collected $620,000 in three tranches from Chairman of Zenon Petroleum and Gas Limited, Mr. Femi Otedola, as part payment to remove his company’s name from the list of marketers that collected foreign exchange from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) without importing petroleum products.
The $620,000 was meant to be part payment for the $3 million bribe Lawan had allegedly demanded from the oil chief to delist his company.
A member of the Ethics and Privileges Committee, Hon. Afam Ogene, told reporters yesterday in Abuja that the report had been ready for weeks.
Ogene, who also doubles as the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Media and Publicity, said it would be submitted to the House as soon as the legislative chamber resumed from its current recess.
Although Ogene declined to give further insight into the recommendations of the committee, a source revealed that the report might give Lawan a clean bill of health.
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