Aniah4u: @KoboJ,maybe De controversial Immunity clause covers some privileged 'HONOURABLEs' in this our father land.Time will tell.

308. (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Constitution, but subject to subsection (2) of this section -

(a) no civil or criminal proceedings shall be instituted or continued against a person to whom this section applies during his period of office;

(b) a person to whom this section applies shall not be arrested or imprisoned during that period either in pursuance of the process of any court or otherwise; and

(c) no process of any court requiring or compelling the appearance of a person to whom this section applies, shall be applied for or issued:

Provided that in ascertaining whether any period of limitation has expired for the purposes of any proceedings against a person to whom this section applies, no account shall be taken of his period of office.

(2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to civil proceedings against a person to whom this section applies in his official capacity or to civil or criminal proceedings in which such a person is only a nominal party.

(3) This section applies to a person holding the office of President or Vice-President, Governor or Deputy Governor; and the reference in this section to "period of office" is a reference to the period during which the person holding such office is required to perform the functions of the office.

Billyonaire: Otedola is a smart man, little wonder he is a billionaire, little Lawan wanted to become billionaire by not working for it. politicians and their hypocrisy. Street is military, to succeed, you got to be a soldier. Lawan isnt street and will never be. I never expected Lawan to own up his shameful action, but, in totality, he knows he is down and out. If he does not go to jail, then, I will give up on Nigeria's justice system

queensmith: so whats gonna happen to the companies implicated in the subsidy scandal? and why did they even bother to trick this man? It doesn't make any sense, are they trying to discredit the panel?
It's unprofessional to indulge in such at a crucial time like this, resources should have been focused on getting to the bottom of things not conjuring up more scandals when other matters remain unresolved.
Nigeria sha, they know how to dramatize things.

Joey82: Basic questions nobody is asking:

If this was a sting operation as Otedola claims, why didnt the police/sss arrest farouk lawan since a prima facie case was already established, why did they have to wait for otedola to blow out before taking up the case.
Otedola issued this bribe since april, why did it take him so long to make public the involvement of lawan in the bribe scandal.

CHESSBOARD: Now its time for the legislators to fight back and Deal with the subsidy robbers. I love Cold war.

femzy: How does Lawan even sleep at night in the midst of all these saga sef

onatisi:
pls stop been a fool cant you see that both of them are thieves , lawan collected money ALONE with no witness with the excuse of wanting to use it against the person , why did he go alone why not with another person , why did he even agreed to take the money . the point is this lawan is a barawo and otedola is an ole

femzy: How does Lawan even sleep at night in the midst of all these saga sef

dorothy111: Otedola might be a criminal, but in this case, the guy is a saint. He played his part well- Hon. Lawan is whacked

femzy: How does Lawan even sleep at night in the midst of all these saga sef

Kobojunkie: How in the world did Tambuwal get his hands of the money now? If the 'sting' was operated by the Police, and the version of the story that suggest that Lawan called the Police when he discovered the bills were serialized, how in the world did the evidence then get into Tambuwal's hands? For pete's sake the man no be detective or police officer.

Kobojunkie: How in the world did Tambuwal get his hands of the money now? If the 'sting' was operated by the Police, and the version of the story that suggest that Lawan called the Police when he discovered the bills were serialized, how in the world did the evidence then get into Tambuwal's hands? For pete's sake the man no be detective or police officer.

CHESSBOARD:

Have you been following this case, The real evidence is the video and audio tape. not the moola

duen23:
This is probably the dumbest quote I have read here. The SSS is probably corrupt or incompetent. Pray tell. In a sting operation where you have video and audio of a lawmaker receiving a bribe, you let the criminal walk out of their for months with no way of recovering your money? They should all be sacked and then probed (preferably with a Love Machine).
They only reason why he should have been allowed to walk out of there with $600,000 of the governments money is if they wanted to see which one of his colleagues would accept the money. No explanation as to why he wasn't apprehended once he accepted the money has been brought up.
This is criminal!

Ileke-IdI:


Mehn, that would suck.

It would be a case of "who reported who FIRST". Awww I feel sorry for Lawan, he looks like such an innocent, gentle cutie pie. Somehow I wish he is actually innocent, just caught up in this mess. Awww

If he's acutally a criminal, it would suck. But i still feel that they need to investigate that Otedola, he has that criminalish look like he could kill someone in his sleep.

Ileke-IdI:
Where is Otedola now?

If this story is true, we need to find out how long he's been bribing and who else he has been bribing. Lawan might end up being not guilty, but that will not make Otedola's hand any cleaner.

Billyonaire: Otedola is a smart man, little wonder he is a billionaire, little Lawan wanted to become billionaire by not working for it. politicians and their hypocrisy. Street is military, to succeed, you got to be a soldier. Lawan isnt street and will never be. I never expected Lawan to own up his shameful action, but, in totality, he knows he is down and out. If he does not go to jail, then, I will give up on Nigeria's justice system

koruji: Otedola is a free man because it was a sting operation, but as you implied business in Nigeria will take all the oxygen out of the air if you try to smell it!!!

In this case, I believe Otedola protected himself by turning into a police informant.

The joke might be on Farouk trying to set up Otedola, not realizing that he was actually the one going into a trap.

Anyway, how you dey? There is one thing I want Nigerians to get clear, there is no way d two parties can say it was a sting operation,. It simply does not make sense, if Otedola did not offer lawan any bribe, how could lawan then organise a sting operation? If lawan did not demand any bribe from Otedola then how could he have organised a sting operation? Did lawan demand? Or did Otedola offer? But the whole thing is looking more and more like lawan demanded for it, there might be more to it but lawan has to really come up with a better defence becos Lawan himself was d one that recommended that zenon should be removed.. If it was a big giant set up, lawan has to clear his name. My question to lawan is this? Why are u organising a sting operation for Otedola? For what purpose? After all you said his company was not involved so why d bribe? Or was he just dashing you for defending his company? You better say the truth before it is too late.