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Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by politicoNG: 2:10pm On Feb 24, 2022
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The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the conviction of a former lawmaker, Farouk Lawan, for receiving $500,000 bribe during a legislative probe into the fuel subsidy regime in 2012.

But the decision, on Thursday, came as a narrow approval of Mr Lawan’s conviction, as the court discharged and acquitted the former lawmaker on two of the offences he was earlier jailed for by the lower trial court in June last year.

Mr Lawan also got a reduction of his jail term from seven to five years.

This arose from his acquittal regarding two of the counts punishable by seven years jail term.

The court affirmed his conviction on the only remaining offence which the lower court punished with five years jail term.

Dismissing the first two counts, a three-member panel led by the court’s president, Monica Dongban-Mensem, ruled that the prosecution failed to prove that Mr Lawan demanded and agreed to accept $300 milllion from billionaire oil mogul, Femi Otedola, to exonerate the businessman’s company from the list of firms indicted for fuel subsidy fraud in 2012.

But the Court of Appeal’s panel affirmed the decision of the lower court that Mr Lawan, indeed, accepted $500,000 bribe from Mr Otedola. The lower court had jailed Mr Lawan five years for this offence.

The Court of Appeal affirmed both the conviction and the sentence passed by the lower court on the offence, but discharged and acquitted him regarding the two other counts of demanding and agreeing to accept $3million from the Mr Otedola to clear his company.

The trial judge, Angela Otaluka, of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, had after over nine years of trial, convicted the former lawmaker on all the three counts preferred against him by the prosecution.

She convicted Mr Lawan of corruption, corruptly demanding $3 million, and eventually taking $500,000 from Mr Otedola to exonerate the businessman’s company from an indictment of fuel subsidy fraud in 2012.

The judge sentenced Mr Lawan to seven years imprisonment on each of the first two counts and to five years in the third count. She ruled that the sentences should run concurrently, implying that the convict was to spend seven years in jail.

But Mr Lawan, dissatisfied with the decision, filed an appeal against it.

He raised six issues with the judgement but only one, which earned him an acquittal regarding two of the three counts, were resolved in his favour.
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Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by bennybuhari: 2:23pm On Feb 24, 2022
Useless Mr Integrity that stuffed dollars into his cap like Ganduje

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Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by Igboland: 2:45pm On Feb 24, 2022
Same with the criminal Peter Peter Obi that loaded over N250 million naira cash in his car to Lagos. Fake saint indeed


bennybuhari:
Useless Mr Integrity that stuffed dollars into his cap like Ganduje

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Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by tayour917i(m): 3:17pm On Feb 24, 2022
k

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Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by Vasically: 3:17pm On Feb 24, 2022
Hmmm
Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by MANNABBQGRILLS: 3:18pm On Feb 24, 2022
Stealing is now corruption in pur darling nation.

Any politicians that have stolen from our national treasury will never end well in this nation,
No matter the party they are.
Along with their supporters.

No be curse,
Na FACT!

We Rise.

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Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by Dozis: 3:18pm On Feb 24, 2022
grin
Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by TooMuchStuff: 3:19pm On Feb 24, 2022
Have never seen any clean fulani politician without corruption n nepotism.

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Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by festacman(m): 3:19pm On Feb 24, 2022
Farouk Lawan consulted Femi Otedola on a probe his House Committee was doing because they were close friends and he was also an experienced operator in downstream oil sector. He felt comfortable around Otedola not knowing that Otedola was representing Obasanjo's interests in African Petroleum PLC.

Obasanjo saw this as an opportunity to pay back to Farouk Lawan for his stubborn opposition when he was in power. He told Otedola to express readiness to pay to have his company's name taken off a blacklist, involve DSS and turn the whole thing into a sting operation to nail Farouk.

Otedola agreed and betrayed his close friend Farouk for the revenge mission of his godfather Obasanjo. He should have tipped him off but he made him walk into a trap by making him feel COMFORTABLE in committing a crime and being recorded.

Thus, day became night for Farouk. The tag of Mr. Integrity was scrubbed off for the tag of corrupt lawmaker. His political career died. His political associates abandoned him for a lonely legal journey. He ended up a prisoner.

Dog eat dog ...

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Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by CheapWebsite1: 3:19pm On Feb 24, 2022
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Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by Johnrake69: 3:20pm On Feb 24, 2022
We're not serious in this country. Reduced sentencing over economic sabotage.

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Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by Naijanascam: 3:21pm On Feb 24, 2022
Igboland:
Same with the criminal Peter Peter Obi that loaded over N250 million naira cash in his car to Lagos. Fake saint indeed





Don't kill yaself for hating who is better than yawhole generation...... amurobber sombori

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Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by Hackopenst: 3:21pm On Feb 24, 2022
post=110509794:
Stealing is now corruption in pur darling nation.

Any politicians that have stolen from our national treasury will never end well in this nation,
No matter the party they are.
Along with their supporters.

No be curse,
Na FACT!

We Rise.
Buhari promised to eradicate corruption and insecurity

What has he achieved?
Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by yahoyob547: 3:22pm On Feb 24, 2022
Una all well-done o
Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by frankmoney(m): 3:22pm On Feb 24, 2022
So Farouk Lawan has not been sentenced since 2012 ?

Nigeria justice system is only fast when it comes to election matters

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Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by affable4(m): 3:23pm On Feb 24, 2022
Same ni
Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by silverlinen(m): 3:23pm On Feb 24, 2022
Shey na wetin go stop the war be this?
Abeg make una do better thing jor.
Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by Tboymessiah(m): 3:23pm On Feb 24, 2022
NasoLifeBe!!!

The only Hausa with audio jail term
Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by damoobaba: 3:25pm On Feb 24, 2022
Congrats to him
Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by Abujason: 3:27pm On Feb 24, 2022
I hope Ganduje is following this matter.
Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by amuwo1980: 3:29pm On Feb 24, 2022
Igboland:
Same with the criminal Peter Peter Obi that loaded over N250 million naira cash in his car to Lagos. Fake saint indeed


And one aboki who fakes moniker claiming to be Igbo

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Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by jojo1415: 3:31pm On Feb 24, 2022
If na another tribesman na 20years imprisonment him go collect.....there was a country cry

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Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by Wazobia2216: 3:31pm On Feb 24, 2022
Nigeria court is currently dominated by the northerners. So its by the northerners and for the northerners

There's nothing keenly about the trial.

Everything in Nigeria currently is in Favour of Buhari's people.

Modified:

What's good about it

Did you see the amount involved
Grassroot5:
good one
Why will these people stop these corruption practices

Ordinary Nigerians are killed for stealing foodstuff! undecided
Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by sokia: 3:33pm On Feb 24, 2022
Abujason:
I hope Ganduje is following this matter.
Ganduje leave the chat group
Re: Appeal Court Narrowly Affirms Farouk Lawan’s Conviction, Jail Term Reduced by Golan007: 3:37pm On Feb 24, 2022
grin
Igboland:
Same with the criminal Peter Peter Obi that loaded over N250 million naira cash in his car to Lagos. Fake saint indeed


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