“I Have not Absconded”: Farouk Lawan

Embattled member of the House of
Representatives and former chairman of the
committee to investigate the fuel subsidy fraud,
Honorable Farouk Lawan , has responded to
allegations that he has absconded from the
country.
It will be recalled that some weeks ago, the
honorable was stopped at the airport by
members of the State Security Service (SSS) as he
was about travelling out of the country. Farouk
Lawan has said that he is not on the run contrary
to insinuations in some quarters, insisting that
there is no reason for him to be on the run
because he is not afraid of anything.
The former chairman of the adhoc committee of
the House of Representatives on fuel subsidy is
currently in Mecca on hajj where he spoke
yesterday. Lawan said he was purely in the holy
land to perform his religious obligation and not
because he had to run from Nigeria.
Honorable Lawan has therefore promised to
return home as soon as the hajj rites were over,
insisting that he was innocent of the bribery
allegations levelled against him by oil baron, Femi
Otedola. He also stated that he was prepared to
do anything to clear himself on the alleged bribe.