Former Chairman, House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee
on Fuel Subsidy Regime, Farouk Lawan,
has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court to challenge the judgment of
the Court of Appeal refusing to quash charges of corruption filed against him
and the Secretary of the committee,
Boniface Emenalo.
Lawan and Emenalo
were charged with a seven-count
charge of receiving $620, 000 bribe from the Chairman, Zenon Oil and Gas, Femi Otedola to exclude
the names of Otedola's companies, Zenon Petroleum and Gas and Synopsis
Enterprises Limited from the list of
companies found to have allegedly defrauded the Federal Government of billions
of naira.
When the matter came up
Monday before Justice Adebukola Banjoko of an Abuja High court, counsel
to the accused persons, Akinyemi Aremu informed the court that he had filed a
motion for stay of the proceedings of the trial
pending the outcome of the appeal he filed at the apex court.
...culled from THISDAY
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