edicolove:

Please, always read before you post. It saves you a lot of embarrassment. Farouk asked the house to remove Otedola's name from the list after he had initially included it. That's evidence that he changed his mind after money changed hands. Farouk did not have any recording of the bribery event. So he is no hero. The so called recommendations are useless if farouk is tainted and guilty.

Demdem:

The Hunter is now being hunted

Jamesqu: Otedola guilty of entrapment — Sagay

Reacting to the allegation of $620,000 bribery involving the managing director of Zenon Petroleum and Gas Ltd, Mr. Femi Otedola, against the chairman of the House committee that investigated the fuel subsidy regime, Hon. Farouk Lawan, a foremost constitutional lawyer, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), has said that Otedola was guilty of entrapment.

Speaking with LEADERSHIP over the phone, Prof. Sagay said entrapment is an immoral way of trapping someone with criminal tendencies to commit the suspected crime. “It is a plan to trap someone into a criminal situation. If a person is suspected to be a drug dealer, a policeman can pose as a drug addict. And when the drug dealer comes to sell the drug, he will be arrested. The problem with entrapment is that the crime does not occur naturally. If one is successfully entrapped, it is an immoral way of establishing someone’s criminal tendencies,” he said.

On whether Otedola was guilty of entrapment, Sagay simply replied, “That is what it could mean.”

Sagay expressed regret over the allegation preferred against Lawan, saying he had always seen the four-time House of Representatives member as the face of integrity and transparency in the National assembly. “It is a major tragedy for this country. If it is true, then, it will leave a major vacuum in the National Assembly,” he stated.

He further called on all Nigerians and the civil society organisations to resist what he called an attempt by the cabal indicted in the report to cast a slur on the integrity of the committee that produced the report.

bakila: Only in Nigeria, the scamming of N2.7trillion has turned to a joke of 600000USD.
It will be a bigger shame if the dollar matter eclipse the naira matter. From experiance we will have an arriangment in court which will mark the beginig and end of the case.
WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GET THE TRILLIONS BACK?

Chinom:

Well, i could'nt be bothered to read the post because i've read a lot about the case on Nigerian National dailies. It still boils down to a case of "he said, she said". His words against his. Whether Farouk removed his name, added it back and removed it again and so fort...is TOTALLY irrelevant. Simple minded folks like you cannot see the bigger picture. The point is that Otedola admitted to offering bribe, Farouk admitted to accepting it. But he still indicted Otedola. That i tell you, my friend, is unprecedented in Nigeria. A country where a policeman will collect just N20,000 to cover a murder case. You and your simple minded supporters ought to hide your heads in shame for not grasping my comment. You could not comprehend my point thereby forcing me to explain. READ BETWEEN THE LINES.

Demdem:

TRILLION NAIRA SUBSIDY REPORT MUST DIE

sadi78: are you involved?

gboss4sure: I believe that the subsidy cabal "Papa OBJ" has a hand in this, he sent otedola to bribe farouk while they were recording the transaction and farouk himself was also trying to play a game in order to get evidence to nail otedola. When you fight corruption it fights back at you....... If not why should otedola agree to pay bribr if his company is clean of the subsidy scandal he should have stood his ground cause has his company been clean there won't be any evidence to nail him....... For sure someone earlier said on one thread like that that OBJ's statement about rogues and arm robbers means that a top senator is going down soon. This is well planned. Wat a country we have

bakila: Only in Nigeria, the scamming of N2.7trillion has turned to a joke of 600000USD.
It will be a bigger shame if the dollar matter eclipse the naira matter. From experiance we will have an arriangment in court which will mark the beginig and end of the case.
WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GET THE TRILLIONS BACK?

Chinom: Does anybody expect Farouk to hand over $620,000 to the police in Nigeria ?. Keeping the money in the house was the best choice. Only those Diaspora Nigerians who no nothing about the country would come out here to blame Farouk.
Yes,he is willing to go down for accepting bribe. But Otedola would still refund the near $250million he stole from us.

edicolove:

I can't really help you here man! Your ignorance stinks. The whole forum is laughing at you. Its embarrasing.

Billyonaire: There is a report issue on Otedola's side too. He was pressured by Lawan and according to him he had to go report to SSS....i love the sting operation that ensued.

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Chinom:

You are certainly NOT in any position to help me. How can you when you are so st-u-pid to comprehend simply logic. Do you know anything about law and jurispundence in Nigeria.
Just listen to your attack on Sagay. What he said is very right within the Nigerian legal code. And FYI entrapment is not accepted all over the world as you ignorantly posted. In The Netherlands, it's not allowed. The defendant would be set free immediately the police admit a trap was set for him. YOU CANNOT OFFER COCAINE TO A JUNKIE AND THEN ARREST HIM FOR USING DRUGS.
Sagay is right. In the USA, you can do that, but in most countries in Central Europe is forbidden. You obviuosly live in some shithole in the US,

Chinom:

You are certainly NOT in any position to help me. How can you when you are so st-u-pid to comprehend simply logic. Do you know anything about law and jurispundence in Nigeria.
Just listen to your attack on Sagay. What he said is very right within the Nigerian legal code. And FYI entrapment is not accepted all over the world as you ignorantly posted. In The Netherlands, it's not allowed. The defendant would be set free immediately the police admit a trap was set for him. YOU CANNOT OFFER COCAINE TO A JUNKIE AND THEN ARREST HIM FOR USING DRUGS.
Sagay is right. In the USA, you can do that, but in most countries in Central Europe is forbidden. You obviuosly live in some shithole in the US,

Billyonaire: There is a report issue on Otedola's side too. He was pressured by Lawan and according to him he had to go report to SSS....i love the sting operation that ensued.

edicolove:

Can't you see that if the joke of 600000000USD is true, then the scamming of 2.7 trillion is a ruse? If Farouk took bribe, then the report is false because it means those indicted are those who didn't settle and the figures you are quoting are false. It also means there are other figures that might have been included that are not there because they settled. Maybe the fraud is even more than 2.7trillion, who knows or maybe its far far less. The only way to know might be to do a fresh probe.

edicolove:

Can't you see that if the joke of 600000000USD is true, then the scamming of 2.7 trillion is a ruse? If Farouk took bribe, then the report is false because it means those indicted are those who didn't settle and the figures you are quoting are false. It also means there are other figures that might have been included that are not there because they settled. Maybe the fraud is even more than 2.7trillion, who knows or maybe its far far less. The only way to know might be to do a fresh probe.

Demdem:

correct !!!.

Above all, farouk is claiming he is following the directive of the IGP as stated in the reference letter from the IGP. let the Police speak out to know if this is true or not abi

erniok: @ demdem, quit arguing blindly. Yes, its a recommendation and should it be implemented, would be disastrous for Zenon. Pray tell me,wat was wrong in involving law enforcement agents, who would have discussed with their legal team and decided to go ahead with the operation. I guess ur type prefers investigative to preventive measures.

well, dont think i am. Its just that am not ready to pitch my tent to whatever team for now unlike many of u guys because its still not completely clear. For it to be implemented, the govt/security agents will still go over it and implement the implementables. besides we have the law courts that Otedola can utilise so whats ur basis? Nothing is wrong with involving the security agents, am just not comfortable with the what i think is the original motives