The Ex-Lawmaker Farouk Lawan, has been released from Kuje after five-year jail sentence for soliciting and accepting a bribe of $500,000 from an oil magnate.
The Ex- kawmaker Farouk Lawan, a former member of the House of Representatives, has been released from Kuje Custodial Center after serving his prison sentence for accepting a $500,000 bribe during a legislative probe into the controversial fuel subsidy regime in 2012.
Lawan, who served as the chairman of the House ad-hoc committee investigating the fuel subsidy fraud, was convicted in June 2021 by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja. The court found him guilty of demanding $3 million and receiving $500,000 from billionaire oil mogul Femi Otedola to remove Zenon Oil and Gas, Otedola’s company, from a list of firms indicted for subsidy fraud.
The bribery scandal emerged during a national probe into the massive mismanagement and corruption surrounding the fuel subsidy program. Lawan’s case became a symbol of high-level corruption within the government.
I remember how i used to watch the House session then because of this man.
It is well.
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