The
Federal Government will today February 2nd reopen the trial of a former
Chairman, House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, Farouk
Lawan and its ex-Secretary, Boniface Emenalo for allegedly obtaining $620,000
bribe money from Femi Otedola, chairman of Forte Oil.
The
House of Representatives members were first arraigned on a seven-count charge
before Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi of the High Court of the FCTin Maitama, Abuja
on February 2, 2013.
They
were accused of receiving the $620, 000 as bribe from Otedola so that they can
exclude the names of Otedola’s companies, Zenon Petroleum and Gas as well as
Synopsis Enterprises Limited, from the list of companies found to have
allegedly defrauded the Federal Government of billions of naira in the
petroleum subsidy scam, which their committee was created to investigate.
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