The mystery over the whereabouts of the $620,000
bribe ,Hon. Farouk Lawan, collected from oil magnate, Mr. Femi Otedola, to
clear his company of alleged fraud deepened yesterday as the person the
suspended lawmaker claimed he gave it to denied receiving it.
Lawan had claimed in a statement shortly after
the scandal broke that he wrote the Chairman, House Committee on Drugs
Narcotics and Financial Crimes, Hon Jagaba Adams Jagaba, informing him of
attempts to bribe him and he attached the money to the letter.
Adams Jagaba has written officially to the
Speaker of the House, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, denying to be in possession of the
exhibit.
There are indications that the bribe-
marked dollar notes- had been spent and could not be traced.Reports going round say that some influential persons were persuading the police to accept any other dollar notes which is equivalent to the said $620,000. There are strong indications that the issue of the bribe was not just between Lawan, his committee secretary, Boniface Emenalo and Mr Femi Otedola alone as some other members of the House might have partaken in the handling of the money. So far, the police have been unable to locate the marked notes paid to Lawan by Otedola. It appears the notes have found their ways out of the country as the banks have reported not seeing such notes
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