Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Farouk Lawan: Festus Keyamo Gives Police One-Week Ultimatum
Lagos lawyer Festus Keyamo has threated to personally commence the prosecution of Representative Farouk Lawan and his cohorts in the House of Representatives if the police fail to arraign them before a court of law in the next one week.
In a statement today, Keyamo recalled that it is over six months the scandal broke regarding the collection of $620,000 US dollars by Lawan from businessman Femi Otedola in order to doctor his Committee’s report relating to the fuel subsidy scam probe by the House.
“After collecting the money, (which he did not deny collecting), Farouk Lawan actually stood up on the floor of the House and performed the act for which he collected the money,” the statement said.
“As for Otedola, I have made my position VERY CLEAR from the beginning that HE COMMITTED NO OFFENCE AT ALL. A MAN WHO REPORTS AN ATTEMPT AT A CRIME TO THE AUTHORITIES AND PLAYS ALONG TO CATCH THE OFFENDER, COMMMITS NO CRIME. EVEN LAYMEN KNOW THIS POSITION OF THE LAW,” the statement said.
Keyamo pointed out that up till today, Mr. Lawan is yet to produce the said money before the Police investigators, fuelling the speculation and suspicion that the money has been spent.
He noted that what ought to be a simple and straightforward matter has assumed an absurd dimension as the Police and the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation have traded blames back and forth as to what is actually happening.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the impression the Police has created that it is the office of the Attorney-General alone that can give it directives to charge the matter to court is complete nonsense. The law presently as espoused by the Supreme Court in the case of FRN Vs. OSAHON (2006) 5 NWLR PT (Pt. 973) 361, says that the Police and other law-enforcement agencies can directly charge matters to court without the consent or fiat of the Attorney-general of the Federation or of any State. The Attorney-General can only intervene by taking over to continue or discontinue the proceedings. What, then, is the Police waiting for?”
The lawyer said the real intention is to make the public forget about the matter and for us to move on with our lives.
“I will not forget,” Keyamo warned.
He said that by his release, a copy of which he was forwarding to the Inspector-General of Police with a covering letter, he expected that Mr. Lawan and his cohorts in the House will be arraigned before a court of law within one week.
“If the Police fail refuse and/or neglect to arraign Farouk Lawan within the stipulated time, I will have no other option than to proceed to court to bring him
Game rules
What Nigerians do not knw as @ present is dat these people are all playing games, n we, who know not the rule of the game are left to confusion in determining who d winner or d loser is. These people know the law, they've got competent lawyers who will help dem in their pursuit of economic power n inflence. It is a game well planned, n we can't but just shout n keep mute later. God save Nigeria!!!
Game rules
What Nigerians do not knw as @ present is dat these people are all playing games, n we, who know not the rule of the game are left to confusion in determining who d winner or d loser is. These people know the law, they've got competent lawyers who will help dem in their pursuit of economic power n inflence. It is a game well planned, n we can't but just shout n keep mute later. God save Nigeria!!!
farouk
keyamo should be supported by all nigerians to fight this monster called CORRUTION
ENOUGH OF SELECTIVE TREATMENT.
WHAT IS SAUCE FOR BABALAKIN SHOULD SERVE GOOD FOR LAWAN FAROUK AND THAT WITHOUT FURTHER PROCRASTINATION NOR ETHNIC CUM RELIGIOUS CONSIDERATION. THIS PEOPLE SABOTAGE THIS ECONOMY AND MUST BE DEALT WITH ACCORDINGLY WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOUR. LAWAN FAROUK IS A CRIMINAL. HIS BACKERS ARE WORSE CRIMINALS. WE MUST CLEANSE NIGERIA FORTHWITH.
THE CORRUPT CANNOT FIGHT CORRUPTION
Jonathan and PDP need the money for their 2015 campaign.
Has Keyamo been recruited to
Has Keyamo been recruited to help bury the case as he did in Bola Ige, Bankole etc? Even a first year law student knows that without joining Ote-dollar in the matter, the Judge will have the excuse to strike it out.
OF DEBASED AND NETHER REGIONS CALLED NIGERIA
LET ME QUICKLY COMMENT THAT IT IS NOT UNEXPECTED TIME AND TIME AGAIN THAT NIGERIA AND NIGERIANS ARE EXPERIENCING THESE EVENTS.THIS IS THE CASE WITH ANY NETHER REGIONS IN THE PLANES OF CREATION.SOME NIGERIANS INCLUDING FAROUK LAWAN,FEMI OTEDOLA AND LEGAL PRACTITIONERS LIKE FESTUS KEYAMO ARE DEBASED.THEY ARE NOT VICTIMS OF CIRCUMSTANCES AS SOMEONE CLAIMED,RATHER THEY MADE THEIR CIRCUMSTANCES VICTIMS OF THEIR MALICIOUS TENDECIES.IT IS HOWEVER MOST REGRETABLE THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO REACTED TO THIS POST NEVER ADDRESSED THE MAIN ISSUE/SUBJECT WHICH IS,
THAT FAROUK LAWAN,HIS COHORTS,OTEDOLA ETC ARE ALL TO BE BROUGHT TO BOOK WHETHER OR NOT KEYAMO IS THE RIGHT PERSON TO MAKE THIS CALL IS NOT SO IMPORTANT.JUSTICE MUST BE DONE.AFTERALL GOLD IS GOLD WHETHER IT IS IN THE HAND OF A MAD MAN OR A PRINCE...
King Kong Keyamo!
All those against this king are hereby pronounced enemies of the state. If no one rises against corruption, you complain....now Keyamo is rising up...you are complaining....on what side are you morons on exactly?
The Maharajas dont go to jail in 9ja-only d iboris and alams do
They were quick to chase Alams from a German Hospital to Heath-row airport-into the waiting arms of Ribadu and the London Metro Police-cause of the zone he hails from! Were faster than a supersonic jet in the arrest and deportation of Ibori from Dubai to London. Quick to nab Ibru and throw her into the gulag of law enforcement agencies in Sanusis CBN. But when it got 2 d turn of the Buharis with itchy fingers like Farouk lawan, the Fulani hegemonic roots were up-rooted to protect the tap root of the Fulani North in 9ja. What has Buhari got o do with this-was it not Buhari who let go alhaji alhaji ex CBN governor who committed the same offence with late Fela? Efcc did not wait a second b4 they seized the alleged properties of Sylva-Not Farouk who is being defended on all fronts by the tripod! Farouk collected marked $s from SSS-yet cannot be prosecuted because he is a Maharaja from the holy tuareg tribe of Mali! Yet they yearn 4 Buhari 2 rule me in 2015! what a shame! What a country!
A MERE $620,000!
IT TAKES ONLY A WEEK OR TWO TO INVESTIGATE,PROSECUTE & SENTENCE AN ORDINARY GOAT THIEF TO JAIL.....
BUT IT TAKES NIGERIAN JUDGES YEARS TO 'CONVICT' IBORI ON 'NO CASE TO ANSWER' BECAUSE OF LACK OF EVIDENCE(S)& HE WAS 'DISCHARGED & ACQUITTED'BUT ONLY FOR THE WISE THIEF TO PLEAD 'GUILTY' (WHICH MADE THE OYIBO JUDGE TO BE LINIENT IN SENTENSING HIM)IN FAR AWAY EUROPE ON THE SAME CHARGES THAT OUR "AGUDA MEN" DID NOT SEE.
.......& KEYAMO IS JUST HERE WASTING HIS TIME FOR A TOKEN $620.000!
WISHING HIM GOODLUCK (EBELE JONATHAN)!
Festus Keyamo Gives Police One-Week Ultimatum
the Country will explode soon, i mean very very soon. let them and all note that.
re: i dey laugh
Before going to town with the mumurity percentage of nigerians, you ought to have checked your own. When last I checked, your writing and language skills in English were zero as evidenced by your write-up. How dare you insult our senses when you know nothing about grammar!
KEYAMO IS NOT A NOISE MAKER
@TJohnson, you seem to have an Axe to grind with Keyamo. Let's tackle issues rather than attack personality. You made a brilliant submission but ended your comment badly when you went personal trying to denigrate Keyamo. The picture you painted ought to be the ideal thing but the system we practice still gives the Police the power to prosecute. Until there is an amendment in our legislatures, the police can still prosecute an accused person. What Keyamo is saying is simple. If the AGF refused to prosecute this case for whatever reason, the police should commence the prosecution so that this clear case of corruption does not just die like that. Keyamu may be a whistle blower if that is what you call noise making but people like him are necessary in a society like ours where we seem to suffer from collective amnesia as Soyinka would put it.
What a country! Fashola was
What a country! Fashola was at ikorodu deceiving people to cancel an abandoned contract. What happen to the contract at Lekki-Ajah? That was tinubu's job?
@ osita DIOKA, u.a. Sa'ad NAGODI...bleib rühig!
@ osita DIOKA :
Let's say for now that he's "missing in action" (MIA) as his silence has become louder than his scripts. My contacts within the SHS (state house security) who monitor our monitorers called me a week ago to say he believed the SSS have "silenced" @ Sa'ad NAGODI, but I think he (NAGODI) is simply lying low or taking a break. He's a consultant/ engineer who may be bogged down with work. Sha, no friends in the army, the battle continues!
Thematic :
Keyamo is a thief looking to line his pockets by raising cheap alarm. After Xmas Owambe I guess he's broke like Daddy Shokey. A bigoted charge-n-bail who rose to prominence thru under-hand tactics claiming a bribe giver is innocent bcos he tipped-off the cops. How about Bankole, also innocent abi? Falana, Keyamo and Babalakin are "egunje lawyers". Thugs.
Keyamo-Falana-Babalakin, et al : "Criminal" Attorneys at Law (No Appointment Necessary!)
Deri Deri Deri
please go take your medicine (antipsychotic).
Keyamo wants attention...I
Keyamo wants attention...I like that
Go Keyamo!
Go for it Bros., at least tell the world that Nigeria is a joke!
NOISE MAKING DOESN'T MAKE YOU A GOOD LAWYER
Let me be blunt, Keyamo is wrong. I do not want our police directly prosecuting a case. It makes absolutely no sense. YOu can't be the accuser, prosecutor and possibly a judge at the same time. Let me repeat, in a sane world it makes absolutely no sense. But then Nigeria is not a sane world. Police duties are investigating and gathering evidences. Once that is done, the case is presented to the Attorney-general or other relevant agencies for prosecution. IT is the duty of the prosecutor to weigh the evidences in the case in order to determine whether to proceed with the case. When you don't have a well defined responsibilities for these agencies you end up with mix-up of this nature with each agency pointing fingers at each other. People claim Keyamo is a good lawyer, I don't think he is. Noise making does not make you a good lawyer.
Tru talk
Tru talk my brother. Our leaders are playing boju-boju, kalo-kalo and abracadabra ..... The more you look the less u see, the more you see the less you understand. WHERE IS EQUITY, JUSTICE AND FAIRPLAY IN THIS?
I DEY LAUGH
It took me long time before i realize that average nigerians are (mumu)most of them have no sense is only 10 to 15% OF NIGERIANS that there brains functions,am very sorry about my statement in the other hand not sorry,because that country is not everybody think right many (mumu)are plenty there,even those that call them self educated ones the know nothing they can only talk bark but cant bite am sorry for that thing call country,why cant we take our destiny by our hand for GOD sake,MARTIN LUTHER KING JNR of blessed memory once said our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the thing that matter.I DEY LAUGH SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
Re: Festus Keyamo and Farouk
KEYAMO WANTS TO EXTORT MONEY FROM FAROUK, BUT I ADVICE FAROUK NOT TO EVEN MIND HIM. KRYAMO SHOULD GO AND SLEEP BECAUSE HE WAS NOT ABLE TO ARREST BANKOLE IN A CASE THAT SO CLEAR TO NIGERIANS, RATHER HE COLLECTED SETTLEMENT, AND HE IS TALKING ABOUT PROSECUTING FAROUK. CORRUPT FOOLISH LAWYER THAT SOLD HIS CONSCIENCE AND LOST HIS GLORY BY BETRAYING THE COMMON NIGERIANS. NEVER WILL YOU BE REGARDED AGAIN IN THIS COUNTRY. WHICH CASE S) HAS HE EVEN WORN IN THIS COUNTRY SINCE BANKOLE DAYS? WEAS HE NOT THE LEGAL COUNCEL TO EFCC? WHAT DID HE ACHIEVE AND HOW MANY CORRUPT PERSONS DID PHE ROSECUTE, APART FROM COLLECTING BRIBES?
Our jails are not meant for them, its meant for Ndigbo...
Festus Keyamo shouldn't be taken serious. He has exonerated his tribesman Otedola from the crime so no one should take his rantings serious. That Aboki Lawan was alleged to have taken a bribe and for Otedola to have reported him to the police doesn't make him free from the oil subsidies fraud. The question should be if he took part in the oil subsidy saga or not. Not about the bribe issue or who reported the bribe saga to the police. Keyamo should better stop being in favour of Otedola if he wants naijas to take him serious.
Naijas have be made to believe that Ifeanyi Uba is the only subsidy thieve. Every other regional thieves have been exonerated including the PDP chairman son. Ifeanyi, you're just a victim of circumstance. Its not your fault that you came from Southeast. My brother take heart please, our jails are meant for Igbos only. Just know someday SOON this oppression will come to an end. It is well brother!
I DEY LAUGH
It took me long before i realize that average nigerians are (mumu)most of them have no sense is only 10 to 15% OF NIGERIANS that there brains functions,am very sorry about my statement in the other hand not sorry,because that country is not everybody think right many (mumu)are plenty there,even those that call them self educated ones the know nothing they can only talk bark but cant bite am sorry for that thing call country,why cant we take our destiny by our hand for GOD sake,MARTIN LUTHER KING JNR of blessed memory once said our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the thing that matter.I DEY LAUGH SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
LAWAL FAROUK THE CRIMINAL.
OUR PRESIDENT HARBORS A CRIMINAL OR CRIMINALS. BIG SHAME!
See what this Country has become?
This is a failed state
Not certain Mr kiyamo.
I wonder as to why Festus Kiyamo has resolved to take this position.Femi Otedola's revelations on the matter of discourse is not enough to exonerate him from the fuel subsidy fraud but Lawan only?What a shame Barrister!
Tru talk
Tru talk my brother. Our leaders are playing boju-boju, kalo-kalo and abracadabra ..... The more you look the less u see, the more you see the less you understand. WHERE IS EQUITY, JUSTICE AND FAIRPLAY IN THIS?
The fear of Buhari ...
The apologists of the bad and utterly corrupt government of ogogoro Jonathan cannot say a word without mentioning Buhari. The fear of Buhari therefore is the beginning of wisdom. Deri, you betray your morbid fear and sometimes respect for this man by your continuous reference to him. You said "yet they yearn for him." This means that you and your sponsors know this man is loved by not a few. Wait, it may not be Buhari. A Jehu is coming. He will wipe out this evil regime and all associated with it.
Tru talk
Tru talk my brother. Our leaders are playing boju-boju, kalo-kalo and abracadabra ..... The more you look the less u see, the more you see the less you understand. WHERE IS EQUITY, JUSTICE AND FAIRPLAY IN THIS?

