As permutations on when the prosecution of Honourable Farouk Lawan over
his alleged complicity in the $620, 000 bribe-for-clearance deal will commence,
his lead counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), has maintained that Lawan has no
case to answer. In a telephone interview with Saturday Mirror yesterday,
Ozekhome noted that, “Lawan has no case to answer, going by the indices of
investigation.”
It would be recalled that Lawan’s “confessional statement” to the
police state to the effect that the controversial bribe sum was kept with the
House committee chairman on Narcotics and Financial Crimes, Hon. Adams Jagaba,
has been punctured by Jagaba, who addressed a press conference where he
threatened to drag Lawan to court if the latter does not apologise over the
“misleading” claim. He noted that, “Hon. Farouk Lawan alleged that he wrote a
letter to me attaching $500,000. That is callously untrue and in fact,
calculated to smear my hard-earned reputation, a reputation I painstakingly
built since 1999. I never received any letter, or money, or any other exhibit
from Farouk…”
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