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The former lawmaker was jailed for receiving a $500,000 bribe from Femi Otedola, a businessman. The money was part of the $3 million Mr Lawan requested to remove Mr Otedola’s firms from the list of companies indicted for fuel subsidy fraud.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the National Council of State granted a state pardon to former Kano lawmaker Farouk Lawan.<\/p>\n
Mr Lawan was jailed for taking bribes while serving as the chairman of a House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating the fraud around the fuel…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The former lawmaker was jailed for receiving a $500,000 bribe from Femi Otedola, a businessman. The money was part of the $3 million Mr Lawan requested to remove Mr Otedola’s firms from the list of companies indicted for fuel subsidy fraud. On Thursday, the National Council of State granted a state pardon to former Kano […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":209582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4293,41527,7354,28743,257,4687,393,20936,254],"class_list":["post-209581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-disgrace","tag-farouk","tag-jail","tag-lawan","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pardon","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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