On Friday, the Supreme Court of Nigeria upheld the judgment that convicted and sentenced the former Chairman of the then House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy probe, Farouk Lawan, to five years in prison for bribery.
Lawan was tried for receiving $500,000 in bribes from business mogul Femi Otedola during a legislative probe into the fuel subsidy regime in 2012.
His appeal sought to set aside the February 24, 2022 judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, which sentenced him to a five-year jail term and discharged him on two out of the three counts on the corruption charge brought against him by the Federal Government.
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