The Supreme Court Friday morning sacked Hon. Eseme Eyiboh as
member representing Eket Federal Consituency of Akwa Ibom State at House of
Representatives.
It could be recalled that Eyiboh in January, 2012 lost at
Court of Appeal where Justice Ayo Bada read out a unanimous judgment upholding the
victory of Bassey Dan Abia Jnr. as the PDP candidate at the 2011 primaries of
the party.
Farouk Lawan, the embattled Chairman of the fuel subsidy probe panel in the House of Representatives, yesterday surrendered himself to police for interrogation over the $620,000 bribe he had confessed to receiving from an oil marketer, Femi Otedola. He was interrogated by the Acting Inspector General of Police,Mohammed Abubakar, and three other Police Commissioners including the head of the IG’s Special Task Force, CP Ali Ahmaduon.
Mr. Lawan arrived at the office of the police Special Task Force at the Louis Edet House Force headquarters about 4pm, in company of Boniface Emenalo, the clerk of his committee and five lawyers. He was detained briefly before he was taken to the interrogation room where detectives quizzed him for several hours.
According to reports, Mr. Lawan was detained at the Police Headquarters till late Thursday evening.
Meanwhile, this revealing video below shows the moment where Mr. Lawan recommended to the House of Representatives that two of Mr. Otedola’s companies – Synopsis Enterprises LimitedandZenon Petroluem and Gas Limited be removed from the list of companies indicted by the committee for receiving forex from the Central Bank of Nigeria but failed to bring in the fuel.
