$620,000 bribe: Lawan, Police disagree over bail terms
Embattled Representative Farouk Lawan returned home from police custody yesterday but under one condition: he must produce the alleged $620,000 bribe not later than this week.
He had been in detention for 72 hours.
His lawyer however dismissed any such suggestion, Israel Olorundare said his client signed no such undertaking.
Lawan who was suspended by his colleagues as Chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Ad hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy Management, at an emergency session, has hired four Senior Advocates of Nigeria including Olorundare to handle his case.
The others are: Rickey Tarfa , Sam Ologunorisa and Mike Ozekhome .
The Commissioner of Police in charge of the Special Task Force, Ali Amodu granted Lawan bail at about 4pm yesterday in the presence of one of the counsels, Tarfa.
The bail was contingent on, according to a police source, a written undertaking by Lawan to produce the alleged bribe sum of $620,000.
His international passport which was seized by the police during a search on his residence in Abuja on Friday has not been released.
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