The house of Representatives want to approbate and as well reprobate at the same time.

After dragging the integrity of the whole house into criminal proceeding involving chairman of the fuel subsidy probe; the same house want to use Femi Otedola as sacrificial lamb.

If you are Femi Otedola, in the present circumstances will you dignify the house by appearing before the 'arrangee' committee?

Should Femi even go at all?

Yes, coz both the giver and taker are guilty. Otedola is a criminal!

Otedola has no business going to the gang of robbers (courtesy-OBJ). The case is with the Police and the NASS cant be the judge in their own court. Otedola, do not go there, I got your back. Fullstop.

am of d opinion dat he should cos they r both suspects until proven otherwise. If his hands are clean then he shuld.

Appear or no Appear, nothing will come out of it. Just a wast of time. Nigerian govt SUCKS!!!

yorke: Yes, coz both the giver and taker are guilty. Otedola is a criminal!

I think the SSS is the giver since they provided the marked bills to Otedola (this you would know if you'd been following the story). So the SSS should be questioned eh?

Dear Nairaland, the synopsis of this thread is already bias..as media, U should be neutral and allow the people voice witout ur guidance... The statement, quoting you.." the same house want to use Femi Otedola as sacrificial lamb" is already judgemental..(U know wat I mean) It shows you are already on Otedola's side..by refering to him as sacrificial lamb..mind U, We haven't heard the last of this case.
Nevertheless, Otedola is a big boy, big enof to set-up one of the brightest house of reps members. So he should go there, he can take care of himself

That otedola guy stole ordinary naija people's money to become billionaire on forbes list.
He's not a business man, he's a crook and he should be put UNDER the jail.
That farouk dude is an id1ot and how did such an id1ot get that post? We(Nigerians) are doomed if these are the kind of people we choose to lead us.
As long as these crook billionaire and corrupt leaders with too much thirst for free money are around we are in trouble.

each time i hear this talk of both the giver and taker being culpable,
i just wonder if people have any understanding at all.somebody cooperated with a security agency
to catch a crook and so he is now a crook.smh

Why must he appear before rogues and criminals?. He is a Nigerian, nobody can intimidate him
He deliberately gave to proof a point to all Nigerians. Look at how Lawan farouk was acting during the probe as if he was the best without blemish Nigeria will or has ever produced, not knowing he's the worst to have entrusted with one of the most sensitive leadership positions.
Instead of people to salute Otedola for his braveness and ability to identify the real people destroying this country, some people are still placing tribal and religion interests above national interest by castigating the man of Otedola.
The summary of Lawan farouk actions so far is that, he can completely sell out Nigeria to her worst enemies for his own personal interest.

Baba_O: Why must he appear before rogues and criminals?. He is a Nigerian, nobody can intimidate him
He deliberately gave to proof a point to all Nigerians. Look at how Lawan farouk was acting during the probe as if he was the best without blemish Nigeria will or has ever produced, not knowing he's the worst to have entrusted with one of the most sensitive leadership positions.
Instead of people to salute Otedola for his braveness and ability to identify the real people destroying this country, some people are still placing tribal and religion interests above national interest by castigating the man of Otedola.
The summary of Lawan farouk actions so far is that, he can completely sell out Nigeria to her worst enemies for his own personal interest.

farouk lawan appeared before the house committee and gave evidence to confirm that it was otedola who approached him.he tendered call logs and tet messages which threatened his life.its now left to otedola to appear to either make rubbish of farouk's claim or tender his own evidence.either way,the house of representatives is empowered by law to demand that he appear before them and he is bound to obey else they ask the police to declare him wanted

D'Soj:
Dear Nairaland, the synopsis of this thread is already bias..as media, U should be neutral and allow the people voice witout ur guidance... The statement, quoting you.." the same house want to use Femi Otedola as sacrificial lamb" is already judgemental..(U know wat I mean) It shows you are already on Otedola's side..by refering to him as sacrificial lamb..mind U, We haven't heard the last of this case.
Nevertheless, Otedola is a big boy, big enof to set-up one of the brightest house of reps members. So he should go there, he can take care of himself

It is obvious that that is their intention.
In the first instance, the House reduced the bribery allegation to executive vs legislature. Secondly, the house can not be a judge in its own case. Why do they call in journalist at the beginning of their so called investigation only to excuse everybody and go into a closed door. Third, police in their investigation said majority of the people investigating the same scandal has a case to answer.
What will they ask Otedola? What effect would the outcome of their investigation be? Can they be the judge or do they have the constitutional power to institute investigation into criminal cases involving individual? What is the job of the police?
In this case, Femi Otedola isolated the individuals involved and accused them of collecting the bribe. He never at any time accuse the House of Rep. or the committee as a whole. Why can the House isolate individual and resist the attempt of dragging the integrity of the National Assembly into mud?

Delafruita:
farouk lawan appeared before the house committee and gave evidence to confirm that it was otedola who approached him.he tendered call logs and tet messages which threatened his life.its now left to otedola to appear to either make rubbish of farouk's claim or tender his own evidence.either way,the house of representatives is empowered by law to demand that he appear before them and he is bound to obey else they ask the police to declare him wanted

Very funny, so because Otedola approached him is enough for him to mortgage his conscience.
Do you still have trust in those house representative members?, mind you Lawan Farouk is a member. There should be well coordinated protest to recall all of them. Why are we still paying them?, why are we still tolerating them?. It is really annoying. Head or tail i dont beleive in their report on oil subsidy probe. It is only Otedola's case we have heard, what about his clan's men that are even closer to him than Otedola that has given him money and nothing will be heard?

And anyone that says Otedola is a good guy definately doesn't know anything about Nigeria economy..the Reps may be rougues, but compared to Otedola, Reps are petty thieves..there are few people holding this nation to ransom and the idiot Otedola is one of them.. I av it on good record dat Otedola said: as long as he sells diesel, Nigeria can neva av stable electricity.
Let's not debate 2 thieves abeg..its not worth it.
Otedola invited Farouk, he went, so if de invite him, he should go..

yes, he should appear. but not a closed door session where journalists will not be available to report first hand procedures. i repeat, open session.

D'Soj:
And anyone that says Otedola is a good guy definately doesn't know anything about Nigeria economy..the Reps may be rougues, but compared to Otedola, Reps are petty thieves..there are few people holding this nation to ransom and the idiot Otedola is one of them.. I av it on good record dat Otedola said: as long as he sells diesel, Nigeria can neva av stable electricity.
Let's not debate 2 thieves abeg..its not worth it.
Otedola invited Farouk, he went, so if de invite him, he should go..

Whatever you have against Otedola should be proven in the court of competent jurisdiction.
The Reps err in inviting Otedola and thereby making a criminal case 'mere executive vs legislature'.
I Otedola refused to appear, do they have power to compel him to do so?
I doubt the exercise of such power.

Alxmyr:

It is obvious that that is their intention.
In the first instance, the House reduced the bribery allegation to executive vs legislature. Secondly, the house can not be a judge in its own case. Why do they call in journalist at the beginning of their so called investigation only to excuse everybody and go into a closed door. Third, police in their investigation said majority of the people investigating the same scandal has a case to answer.
What will they ask Otedola? What effect would the outcome of their investigation be? Can they be the judge or do they have the constitutional power to institute investigation into criminal cases involving individual? What is the job of the police?
In this case, Femi Otedola isolated the individuals involved and accused them of collecting the bribe. He never at any time accuse the House of Rep. or the committee as a whole. Why can the House isolate individual and resist the attempt of dragging the integrity of the National Assembly into mud?

No sir...I humbly disagree..a man witout skeleton in his cupboard will be bold to face anybody...especially now dat d case is with police, sss and in d public.. Everyone will be careful..shebi he invited Faroul to his house and Faroul went, why shouldn't he also go to Farouk's house? Let's not judge yet.. Anything can still happen..we are on d outside, they are on d inside and believe me, some things are still hidden.. Let dem wash their dirty liniens in public so we can see the "koko"
At least its on record Farouk reported the offer way back April, with police docs and texts as evidence.."Wat if he collected the money to play along"?
Otedola gave the money and got it recorded on video.."Then blew the whistle"
This is a James Hadley Chase novel, none of us on the outside can unravel yet.

So please, moderator, I'm not taking sides, and don't expect U to take sides either..at least..Not Yet...thank U

Alxmyr:

Whatever you have against Otedola should be proven in the court of competent jurisdiction.
The Reps err in inviting Otedola and thereby making a criminal case 'mere executive vs legislature'.
I Otedola refused to appear, do they have power to compel him to do so?
I doubt the exercise of such power.

And wateva U av against the Reps should be proved in a court of jurisdiction. Otedola is not a saint, stop painting him thus. Neither is d House of Reps. If he doesn't appear, then he is a coward. Simple...

Why not? who is he? He must face all investigating agencies just like Lawan. When things finally go against him in court, let him accept that he started it all.

yorke: Yes, coz both the giver and taker are guilty. Otedola is a criminal!

yes, he may be but not in this lawan issue.

tribalism:
yes, he may be but not in this lawan issue.

Exactly. He was smarter in this case. He is the whistle-blower.

bobolic: Why not? who is he? He must face all investigating agencies just like Lawan. When things finally go against him in court, let him accept that he started it all.

Unfortunately, the house can not constitute itself into an investigating agency in a criminal matter. The best it can do is fact finding, not investigating with a view of establishing criminality. The agency with such power is the police and Efcc. Usurping powers of the police and other security agency is not constitutional.
The question is simple; if Otedola refused to appear, what will they do?

They will start accusing GEJ of protecting Otedola from appearing?

I always say it. Everyone has his constituency. Shout anti-corruption as they may. When you reach the areas of their interest you begin to hear wierd tales. In January his house was being pelted with stones. The same Forumites all screamed for the heads of the cabal. Today it is the panel in the dock and the other side has no case to answer. That's why I say corruption is not our problem in Nigeria. It is simply not important to us.

MAJORITY OF MEMBERS OF THE NIGERIA SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPS. INCLUDING STATES ASSEMBLY USED FORGED EDUCATIONAL CERTIFICATES TO CONTEST ELECTION, MOST OF THEM DID NOT HAVE THE QUALIFICATIONS CLAIMED, LAWAN FARUK INCLUDED,REMEMBER SALISU BUHARI OF TORONTO UNIVERSITY FAME,CAME FROM THE SAME KANO AS LAWAN, IGP,PLZ TAKE ACTION TO RE-SCREEN AND CONFIRM THE CERTIFICATES OF THESE SO CALLED LEGISLATORS. THIS IS AUTHORITATIVE.

Alxmyr:
Exactly. He was smarter in this case. He is the whistle-blower.

If his name was on that list he has a case to answer. Forget all these smoke bombs going off here and there. Not everyone is a bingo that can be distracted by tainted meat over the fence. He should appear to explain the motive behind his 'sting operation' which is clearly aimed at stalling the subsidy probe that a lot of people were making noise about just a few months ago. What kind of country is this for heavens sake. Does one crime automatically erase another.

tribalism:
yes, he may be but not in this lawan issue.

How? Both parties have cases.. Do U guys know d beauty of law? D jagbajantis of court case? With brillant lawyers.
Who made d 1st call?
Records of calls and texts?
Where is d money sef?
Police sef av case to answer..
Did Farouk report?
When?
What did police do?
Ok, but..Otedola reported, and sss provided the money..
Why didn't police play along with Farouk to go and collect d money and use it as evidence..
Naija guys, we don pass secondary sch where who ever reports 1st is innocent
Both are guilty. 4 now.

Hahaha,otedollar may bribe them again oh in his corupt oficials uncovering adventure

Reference:

If his name was on that list he has a case to answer. Forget all these smoke bombs going off here and there. Not everyone is a bingo that can be distracted by tainted meat over the fence. He should appear to explain the motive behind his 'sting operation' which is clearly aimed at stalling the subsidy probe that a lot of people were making noise about just a few months ago. What kind of country is this for heavens sake. Does one crime automatically erase another.

Unfortunately though, he was not invited because his name was on the list.
Moreover his name was on the list not because he has a case to answer, but he decided to blow the whistle of bribery.
Police investigation has even shown that the $620K bribe was just paltry sum, over $10 million bribe exchanged hands during and after the probe.
Majority of the bribery happened outside Nigeria.
Unfortunately, you may not be able to try a man for a crime that was not committed in your own country.
So Farouk and Co are not that daft.

Alxmyr: The house of Representatives want to approbate and as well reprobate at the same time.

After dragging the integrity of the whole house into criminal proceeding involving chairman of the fuel subsidy probe; the same house want to use Femi Otedola as sacrificial lamb.

If you are Femi Otedola, in the present circumstances will you dignify the house by appearing before the 'arrangee' committee?

Should Femi even go at all?

yes to continue his efcc job which he has just gotten.lwkmd o

Yes he should appear before the House of Reps because he has to substantiate his accusations against Farouk Lawan before the House of Reps Ethics Committee.
that's the proper procedure

Invitation my foot

Delafruita:
farouk lawan appeared before the house committee and gave evidence to confirm that it was otedola who approached him.he tendered call logs and tet messages which threatened his life.its now left to otedola to appear to either make rubbish of farouk's claim or tender his own evidence.either way,the house of representatives is empowered by law to demand that he appear before them and he is bound to obey else they ask the police to declare him wanted

Sometimes I wonder if some of you lads ever went to school. The house of reps has no such constitutional powers. Its only the police that he has to answer to. The house of reps can only do fact finding. They cannot usurp the powers of the police force. They are not a law court. They cannot prosecute Otedola. They are making a f00l of themselves. That is why the attorney general called the subsidy probe a fact finding exercise because that is exactly what it is. It has no legal binding on anyone. Security forces can only use it as a pool of information to build a case. It is not in itself an evidence of anything.