In the latest twist of the bribery allegation between former chairman of the ad-hoc committee investigating the management of subsidy and businessman Femi Otedola, the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Drugs/Narcotics and Financial Crimes, Hon. Jagaba Adams Jagaba has threatened legal action against Hon. Lawan Farouk if he doesn’t stop blackmailing him.
Speaking at a press briefing yesterday, Jagaba said he will be forced to go that route if Lawan continues to ‘lie’ that he gave him (Jagaba) $500,000 part payment money he received from Otedola.
Lawan had alleged that he attached the $500,000 to a letter he purportedly wrote to Jagaba, a position which the latter vehemently denies.
“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 Lawan.”
Denying any knowledge of the letter, he said, “I saw for the first time the purported letter on a page of the Leadership Newspaper, page 6 of June 14, 2012; and the closest copy which I saw and touched was the copy he presented to the Police Special Task Force (STF) investigating the bribery scandal, when I went there on July 10, 2012.”
