President Goodluck Jonathan has dispelled reports in the media alleging his involvement in a bribery scandal involving Chairman of House of Representatives’ fuel subsidy probe ad-hoc committee chairman, Farouk Lawan and a petroleum marketing firm, saying he had and does not nurse any plan to interfere in matters concerning the House.
Accordingly, Jonathan warned that the lawmakers and
law enforcement agencies should be given a level playing ground “to conduct and conclude investigations without further unhelpful distractions”, adding that “the attempt to drag the Presidency into the matter is entirely speculative and without factual foundation”.
EMBATTLED Chairman of the fuel subsidy probe panel in the House of Representatives, Farouk Lawan, on Thursday surrendered himself to police for interrogation over the $620,000 bribe he had confessed to receiving from an oil marketer, Femi Otedola.
The lawmaker was subsequently interrogated and detained along with the Clerk of his committee, Boniface Emenalo.
Lawan arrived at the office of the police Special Task Force at the Louis Edet House Force headquarters about 4pm, in company with Emenalo and five lawyers.
The lawmaker was detained briefly before he was taken to the interrogation room where detectives, led by the Commissioner of Police in charge of the STF, Ali Ahmadu, quizzed him four several hours.
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