PRESIDENCY BEHIND POLICE PROBE OF FUEL SUBSIDY BRIBERY SCANDAL

Revelations coming out indicate that the Police's investigation of the $620,000 bribery scandal involving the suspended Chairman of the House of Representative's Ad-Hoc Committee on the management of Fuel Subsidy,Farouk Lawan and the secretary of the committee,Boniface Emenalo is not an independent decision of the police but rather the Police acted on a letter from a senior official in the Presidency(name withheld).Click on read more to continue below...

A reliable source in the Presidency has revealed that in the letter dated May 2,2012, a Presidential aide reported a case of conspiracy and bribery involving some members of the House committee to the Police.On June 14th,President Jonathan denied the insinuation that the government was orchestrating the $620,000 bribery scandal.

His spokesman,Dr Reuben Abati in a statement had said''Both the bribery allegation and the report are before the security agencies and they will do a thorough job on both of them.

The police and State Security Service (SSS) who reported carried out the sting operation are at loggerheads over the matter as the SSS has refused to release items of the sting operation on the bribery scandal such as the original copy of the video,serial numbers of the marked dollar bills to the police