The Court of Appeal, Abuja Division, yesterday, dismissed the appeal filed by a former member of the House of Representatives from Kano State, Hon. Farouk Lawan, seeking to terminate the $3 million bribery charges brought against him by the federal government.
He was said to have received the sum of $500, 000 from Otedola as part-payment of the alleged $3 million bribe, when he was Chairman of the House Committee on Oil and Gas. In the judgment delivered by Justice Olabisi Ige, the Court of Appeal held that the decision of the lower court was well founded. Justice Ige who quoted copiously from the records of proceedings of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, especially the testimonies of the five witnesses called by the federal government, upheld the findings of Justice Otaluka that there were sufficient evidence linking Lawan to the offences.
After the prosecution closed its case last year after calling five witnesses, Lawan, through his counsel, Mike Ozekhome , had filed a no-case submission on the grounds that the evidence and testimonies did not link Lawan to the crime.
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