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High level politics is going on. Soft landing is going on. Corruption is being us to cover up corruption. That's what is going on. Those of you who thought this is a done deal for the case against Otedollar are sorely mistaken.

kingoflag: Ingridients of murder? Ok, lets see . . . . em Palm Oil, Pepper, Salt, 2oz water. . . .

Now, its ur turn to ask yourself : "Where am I coming from?"

What do you mean by the bolded? I don't think theres anyone denying that Otedola gave a bribe. Even Otedola himself is not disputing this. He admitted as much, so did Lawan. Otedola's defense, however, is that he gave the "bribe" under the direction of the State (Nigeria), for that reason he has not broken any laws (his claims). If this is proven to be true, then Faruk Lawan is toast.

Giving and offering are 2 different things. Of course Otedola GAVE it. He may have been the one who made an OFFER of bribe in the first place.

kingoflag: Wrong!

Even if there is no physical evidence, any circumstantial evidence has already been given weight (and should now be seen as if it was right before our eyes) because Faruk Lawan has already admitted to it. By accepting that he did collect money from Femi Otedola he has given credence to his allegations. We do not need to see any marked bills any more, theres nothing else to be contested in that department. We've established that there was money involved. We've established that Femi Otedola was the giver, while Mr.Lawan was the receiver. We have even agreed on the amount; none of this is disputed.

Now, what have to establish is the motive: Why was Mr.Otedola giving money and why was Faruk Lawan accepting it? Was it within the confines of the law (i.e was it a sting operation as both sides are now claiming).

Its like being convicted of murder even though a body was never recovered. If the "evidence" links you to it, you're toast. Evidence doesn't have to be physical, circumstantial ones can be just as effective, and maybe even deadlier.

In the American Jury system, Faruk Lawan would have been counting down the days before he relinquishes his freedom for 30+ years.

Convicted for Murder without a body being found? Where is this one coming from? What are the ingredients of murder? Can you at this point establish that it was not Otedola that offered the bribe?

Tonitelli: Bros..order his arrest for refusing to honor the summons of the house of rep??or for honoring, but saying he would give his own side of the story in public??which was wat the house of reps promised us in the first place??i don't understand this your arrest o!!!!

What is the point of honouring the invitation and now the telling the house how to conduct its affairs? If its not grandstanding, how does a session in camera jeopardize Otedola's case when his counsel is right there with him? I think the media circus is overshadowing whatever gains we stand to make from this debacle. A bad precedence is being set and ee all seem to be applauding it.

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Tonitelli: Bros....no vex..but let's try to be rational here now...not everyone has taken sides here to the best of our knowledge...otedola or Farouk, we know say dem get am for body..all we're saying is there should be transparency in the way this stuff is to be handled..naija don tire for hidden stuff..let everything be out in the open....u have people here supporting otedola's demand for a public hearing!and we Nigerians deserve it.this is a house of reps dat had said this hearing would be public,then they throw out the media when Farouk came in, wit the silly excuse that they didn't want to compromise the other witnesses or some crap or the other....u cannot blame otedola for playing to the public gallery..it's what the reps had the chance to do but since they probably chopped the money together they dare not!pls read otedola's statement again...d guy make sense naa....u did all the so called Farouk hearings in public, why go closed door now ??
Did u watch the news??these so called committee members were insulting otedola just because he said he wanted to do this in public..calling him stupid and saying things like otedola insulted them cos he said he wasn't going to talk...do they sound like people that will give an unbiased view of this matter?
And finally,bros........armed robber dey house, catch anoda robber...u say becos the first one na thief make we no call the other one thief yet..how now??catch otedola first and see if he won't be called one...as for now, it's Farouk dat has questions to answer....
U can't have him give these many different stories abt his role in all this and still come out tops...from caricature to agreeing that it was him but that he was going to expose otedola ...to saying he gave the money to a colleague who promptly denied him to saying that he collected money not bribe(by the way, dem put gun for him head give am the money?)...........
By the way, let's not forget that he did what he was paid to do, whether he was approached to or he did the approaching...have u forgotten dat part bros??

The thing is that the House has brought shame upon itself otherwise Otedola has not business asking the House to co duct its business in a particular manner. Sentiments aside, he could be held in contempt. Yes, the House has the power to order his arrest.

noblezone: The night the "honourable members" gathered to move a motion to ask Mr. President to revert to N65.00 but at the same time turned down a motion for a probe in the subsidy scam, some of us knew that the House is not but a fraud.

They were hailed by Nigerians, but few of us sticked to our guns that Mr. President was right.

Till now, Mr. President is still right! The best way to go is for market forces to determine the prices of petroleum products. We can either agree now, or keep deceiving and being deceived that GEJ is the problem.

I am still calling on Jonathan to put in place a measure that will lead to a faster transition to the deregulated petroleum sector.

For now, I will sip me some drink while I watch the fight among the oil thieves.

I hope you are buying fuel @N141 otherwise you are a hypocrite.

edicolove: The 3 key components in a criminal case are hard evidence, witnesses and motive. Of the 3, motive is the hardest to establish and motive is what cements the evidence. But like I said before, Farouk has actually done the whole saga a favour when he became Otedolla's advocate at the floor of the house. That again is cemented by the house hurried session to re-indict Otedolla. It is simply laughable and f00lish.

Evidence must be linked with motive. Motive cannot exist just like that. For now, I cant see any evidence or can you? Dont tell the audio is evidence. one million witnesses either will not convict. You need just one credible witness. We wait.

edicolove: Everyone trying to defend Farouk here because they don't like Otedolla is just being silly. The evidence is overwhelming and Farouk himself have aided the evidence against himself. The logic of who initiated the conversation is irrelevant. In fact, if Otedolla wants to execute a sting, he might have to be the one to initiate it. That's why it is called a sting. What is important in court is that he collected bribe, not who initiated it.

Now Farouk's main argument would have being that he was trying to also setup/expose Otedolla. But that argument fell flat on its face when he went to the floor of the house and canvassed that Zenon be removed from the list. That was the killer. That was what cemented it as a bribe. That video of him on the floor of the house finished everything. It established motive and that's the key in a law court. The house now cemented Otedolla's argument when they convened and hurriedly put back Otedolla's name again. That in itself is self indictment by the house and also a further indictment of Farouk.

You know, to be honest, I have never seen someone of this status fumble the way Farouk has fumbled. It really depicts him as someone with very little intelligence. And the house has just taking the ignorance to a whole new level. On the other hand, Otedolla is looking very rock solid here. He has never changed his statement once and challenging the house to make his appearance public is a deadly blow. A TKO!

Criminal cases are not easy to prove. Any lawyer will tell you that. If you have 99.9 evidence and .9 doubt, Farouk will be set free. The courts don't work on sentiments. Even if Otedola has 100% proof and cannot establish it IN COURT, Farouk walks free.

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NEROSKY: Am tired of BB, I bought one not up 2 two weeks ago, now I lost my nokia for the sake,and I felt like diein eva since, I need Nokia E6 and I want to give It away. ( my BOLD 2) @28,000

Why not burn the BB?

NEROSKY: Am tired of BB, I bought one not up 2 two weeks ago, now I lost my nokia for the sake,and I felt like diein eva since, I need Nokia E6 and I want to give It away. ( my BOLD 2) @28,000

Why don't you just burn the BB? You will sell it to someone and tomorrow you will open a thread to say BB is rubbish. If it is that bad, burn it please and rid the world of BB.

How does an android user in say Kano send a photo of an event in Kano instantly to a friend in Lagos and the friend in Lagos will get instantly. Give me asnwers too for music, videos and URL links. I use a BB currently. Moved from S40 and all this BB is shi.t stuff is making me wonder. I want to learn please.

There appears to be a problem with BB services across all networks. Friends from all networks are having virtually same problem. Anyone noticed yet.

E be like say some people de use multiple ID vote for GEJ.

Beaf: This tune is old and stale and exposes a weak understanding of the issues at stake.
Boko haram has become a wing of al qaeda, it is an international beast, that is why the US has taken notice and is now primed to take out their leaders with drones or attack squads like they did Bin Laden. You might as well ask why the US hasn't yet bombed Shekau.

Please lets stop making these inane utterances.

You just like everything America. Just getting excited like a baby given a first candy. Americans have got their problems you know. Solve the problems you created and leave big brother alone. When the same Americans call your country a sleaze haven, you don't commend them.

Una never fit run Ajaokuta, una wan start another adventure?

DaLover: Apart from the fact that this videos were poorly shot by someone standing/sitting infront of a TV with a camera, whats the hulabalo about?

Man you guys keep hitting new lows on a daily basis now...

I believe GEJ answered his critics well in that media chat...I would score him 90%. A+

Na the quality of the video we de talk about here? Has anybody complained about its quality?

oyb: no be so gej monkeys dey talk ? attack the messenger and ignore the message

Got you now.

oyb: what has youtube ever achieved in its life - useless website for useless people

Na you de talk this one so?

quest003: Alert- reno omokri keeps creatin multiple ids on dis forum, Mandelaguy is the latest. Genuie nairalndrs, watch out.

We don know tey tey. Nobody writes whith such venom as he does. The consistency too gives him away. Funny enough he seems to now know that the name is utter rubbish in this forum and is gradually ditching it.

He is still verifying the authenticity of the video. E go soon come tell us say na ACN-tube

Source: omojuwa.com/2012/n96m-bribery-scandal-probe-hits-dead-end/

N96m bribery scandal
probe hits dead end
June 28th, 2012 by zebbook
Police investigators are in a dilemma
over the whereabouts of the N96m
bribe received by the Chairman of the
House of Representatives ad hoc
committee on fuel subsidy, Mr. Farouk
Lawan, from the Chairman of Zenon Oil
and Gas, Mr. Femi Otedola.
Our correspondent gathered in Abuja
that Lawan, who appeared at the Force
Headquarters on Wednesday, insisted
that he gave the money to the
Chairman, Committee on Narcotics and
Anti-corruption, Adams Jagaba.
Investigations showed that the police
probe into the matter was compounded
by the refusal of the State Security
Service to provide the Special Task
Force with the original copy of the video
recording of what transpired between
Lawan and Otedola.
The police STF had also not received
details of marked money allegedly
given to Lawan by Otedola.
Saturday PUNCH had exclusively
reported on June 23 that the police had
written the Director-General of the SSS
asking for the materials, but the latter
had not released the items.
Our correspondents learnt that the STF
was not making progress in the
investigation because of its inability to
know the whereabouts of the money.
This came to the fore on Wednesday as
Jagaba and members of the committee
on fuel subsidy again shunned the
police invitation.
They were expected to appear before
the STF on Wednesday, but only Lawan
and the clerk of the ad hoc committee,
Boniface Emenalo, turned up.
The police had last week invited Jagaba
and the committee members. Jagaba
was asked to bring the exhibit money.
The lawmaker declined, but however
wrote the Inspector-General of Police,
Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, saying he
did not collect any money from Lawan.
Sources said the STF confused about
the next step to take, following the
‘dribbling‘ by Lawan and the refusal of
other committee members and Jagaba
to honour police invitation.
Other committee members that were
invited had yet to appear before the
police too.
A source said, “Investigators are
confused and didn’t know what to do
because Lawan kept dribbling them
about the whereabouts of the money
and it seems the STF is intimidated by
the caliber of people involved in the
matter.
“I think the fact that the Inspector-
General of Police, is in acting capacity is
an issue and that may be why the
police are afraid to go tough with the
lawmakers.
“The fact that the SSS has not been
cooperating with us by releasing
materials in its possession is not
helping the matter. This investigation is
heading for the rock.”
Meanwhile, Lawan has stated that
Otedola offered to bribe the members
of ad hoc committee on fuel subsidy
with huge money from the Presidency
so that the final report on subsidy
payment could be watered down.
Lawan explained that the Zenon Oil and
Gas chairman touted his close
friendship with President Goodluck
Jonathan and how he assisted him
(Jonathan) in various ways when he
was the Vice President.
According to him, Otedola threatened
him to remove the names of his
companies AP and Zenon Oil from the
list of indicted firms, otherwise he
would use his connections in the
Presidency to ruin his future political
ambition.
The diminutive lawmaker, in his
statement to the STF investigating the
N96m bribery scandal involving him,
Boniface Emenalo, and other
committee members claimed that
Otedola pestered him to exonerate his
companies and went as far as
threatening to truncate his political
ambition.
“Otedola told me he could serve as a
link to collect money from the
Presidency so that the report will be
watered down. Having seen him as a
friend, I consistently turned down such
offers politely but firmly, but when I
saw his desperation after the release of
the report, I decided to play along and
use his case as example of those who
tried to compromise us (committee
members),” Lawan wrote.
Police sources told our correspondent in
Abuja on Wednesday that Lawan
claimed he visited the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission
Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, on April
27, 2012, where he reported Otedola’s
attempts to induce him with money in
order to destroy the fuel subsidy report.

Billyonaire: The internet package modules can virtually be tailored to network, in a lay word, I could say, pay $3000 to MTN and you browse for a whole month, but with my Galaxy Note, 1000 gives me 200MB of data which is exhausted in a day while streaming youtube but same youtube on BB, you still have 1 full month. Need I say more, email arrives at BB servers before hitting your mail server. Lets talk about IMAP and POP protocols, I hardly can configure my domain email to work with android without goint through a lot of manual configurations and the system refreshes itself every 5 minutes to upload new emails but BB is instant even before getting to mail servers, infact there are many features I cant start comparing now, but with BB, my Galaxy Note is just for a show....

How do you watch video on Youtube using you BB (does BIS allow you to stream video) mine doesn't. Teach me abeg.

GEJ don give una new line - "Boko Haram should not stop governance". Carry on.

Where are you? I am offering 18k Your location?

Billyonaire: Channel your energies to self development, you will probably be better....

You have the evidence there. Where you want us to channel our energy to again. Dispute whatever you can here.

begwong: Where can some of our state/federal legislators,senators and other politicians & area boys get degrees & certs now
Whats the name of that infamous place in Lagos good in printing fake results sef? . . . Business don land una

Oluwole

Location is Benin. Contact Kelebe7@gmail.com. Urgent please.

What we are saying is that even if GEJ has credible Intel that the likes of IBB, Buhari, Atiku and co are behind BH, he doesn't come across as someone man enough to take them on.

GEJ struck me as someone having Socia Media trauma. The likes of Reno Omokri must have told him that BBM, facebook and twitter is where all the lies are manafactured.