$3M Bribery: Court sentences ex-Reps probe panel chairman, Lawan to 7 years imprisonment

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting at Apo, yesterday convicted and sentenced the former Chairman of then House of Representatives Ad-hoc committee on Fuel Subsidy probe, Mr. Farouk Lawan, to seven years imprisonment.

The court, in the judgement delivered by Justice Angela Ataluka, found the four-term lawmaker  for Bagwai/Shanono Federal Constituency of Kano State guilty of demanding an aggregate sum of $3 million from Chairman of Zenon Petroleum and Gas Ltd, Chief Femi Otedola, to give his company a clean bill of health in the fuel subsidy probe the House of Reps initiated on 2012.

The court said it was satisfied that the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, successfully established a criminal case against the defendant.

The defendant was convicted on all three count charges the ICPC preferred against him.