Mr. Farouk Lawan has instructed us to vehemently denounce the so called part 2 of the alleged conversation between Mr Femi Otedola and Mr Farouk Lawan just played on Channels TV. It reminds one of Baba Sala’s “Alawada Keri Keri” histrionics and comedy. It is even more obfuscating and labyrinthine. In William Shakespeare’s immortal words, “it is nothing but a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”.

Mr Lawan is portrayed in the said conversation as an unyielding, talkative, bellicose and eager person who was hurriedly urging Mr Otedola not to tell anyone that the names of his companies will be removed from the indicted list, because if he went about telling people that, in an Oil Sector that is a small world where everyone knows the other, it would be difficult to remove his companies from the list of indicted ones. Mr Lawan is also said to have uttered that it is left to the Committee to know what to do as he will spring it as a surprise on the floor of the House!

Recall that in the so called part 1 of the alleged conversation between the duo aired yesterday on Channels TV, Mr Lawan was portrayed as an incoherent, stammering, unsure and sluggish speaker, who could hardly get out his carefully weighed words.

This second part has more than ever before confirmed Lawan’s worst fears that the entire audio play back is a doctored, edited piece of animated voice that does not belong to him and which only forensic evidence can unravel. He believes that the motives behind the audio are invidious, insidious and that the entire audio playback of Monday and Tuesday is of dubious and questionable pedigree.

The questions that agitate an unbiased mind from this unfolding piece of poorly scripted home comedy are.

1. Why is this audio recording being played in bits and pieces, rather than enbloc and wholly?

2. How come that an audio recording which ought to be played on Radio for a listening public is being aired on television for a viewing public, when no visual is involved howsoever?

3. Where is the visual recording of the alleged bribe?

4. How come a supposed part of the same conversation portrays Lawan as a talkative, belligerent and unyielding character who barely allowed Mr Otedola to uttered one word, while the first part supposedly shows him as a sluggish, tentative, stammering, and measured speaker, speaking only when prompted on by the same Otedola?

5. If Lawan says it was left for the Committee to know what to do to help out, why will Otedola pay bribe to influence an issue Mr Lawan had already concluded that his committee would know what to do about?

6. If Mr Lawan did actually warn Mr Otedola not to tell other Oil Marketers so that the impression is not given that his Committee has been compromised as the audio tend to show, does this not infact show, assuming the story were correct that Lawan was actually saying to Otedola, “you know we have not been compromised”?

7. Why has it taken Mr Otedola this long to make public his so called “sting operation” well over two months after Lawan had notified the Police when he interacted with them in May, 2012?

8. How come that neither Mr Lawan nor Mr Emenalo was arrested or swooped upon in a so called “sting operation” where money allegedly changed hands on four different occasions?

9. What is the source of this audio tape that is being played installmentally and which ought ordinarily to emanate from Security Agencies, if indeed it was a “sting operation” by the SSS?

10. Who is fooling whom?

For the avoidance of doubt, Mr lawan categorically denies, disowns and denounces in its entirety the audio voice as he insists that same is not his God-given voice. He maintains that even his friends and associates could not identify it as his voice when they listened to the play back. He warns, finally, that those who lives in glass houses should stop throwing stones.

CHIEF MIKE A.A. OZEKHOME, SAN,

LL.d, D.Litt, Ph.D, LL.M, LL.B (HONS), BL,

KSM, F.AES, FNIM, F.ICA., F.chMC

Constitutional Lawyer And Human Rights Activist.

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The second part of the transcript of the purported conversation between the former Chairman of the House of Representatives ad hoc Committee on fuel subsidy fraud, Farouk Lawan and Chairman of diesel retail giant, Femi Otedola has been broadcast by a Lagos television station.

Transcript of the conversation follows:

LAWAN: When I saw your text ,it makes me feel  bad, I said … You  know the effort  I am making?

OTEDOLA:  I know, I  know

LAWAN :No, no ,no ,no, when you said  I’m … that didn’t…Please, this  thing we are doing ,keep it to yourself, otherwise  you  will make  things difficult for  us

OTEDOLA: Ok, I am now

LAWAN: You will make it difficult for us all, because somebody called me now and said that we said we are going to address it.

OTEDOLA: Address what?

LAWAN: It is already out that we are going to do something, but when we do it, people will think we are doing it because we have compromised. If my colleagues get to hear about it, I won’t be able to convince such, so keep it  to yourself ,let it be a top secret. Let it be a top secret .Let it not be like anybody is aware of what is happening if anybody ask you…somebody is saying that… they said you know from your record…they have all your record and you have made a case to the committee.

OTEDOLA: God bless you, God bless you

LAWAN: It is left for the committee to decide what to do ,please keep it that way ,but the moment it goes out, when we are going to  correct it.

OTEDOLA: Ok,ok

LAWAN: Whether it seems we have already a… so ,let it be want to spring a surprise on floor and that is the only  credible  way        to do it .You know your sector is hot  so much.

OTEDOLA: God bless you, God bless you my brother .I’ve been trying … anytime I hear your voice…

LAWAN: You know your sector is hot one. You are hot enough  and people are even saying … they said…somebody just called and said what happened that Femi has gotten his way around .He has already… No, no I am saying it because this is what I heard.

OTEDOLA : But let me tell you one thing, you  know me as a person .

LAWAN: I know. Don’t make things difficult. Whoever ask, say no I didn’t do this .I am trying to clear myself from the committee. But I have sent a letter to set the record right. That’s   all ,yeah

OTEDOLA :Ok, brother. Thank you . Alright.

TIME OR RECORD: 1005 hours – 1012 hours

DATE OF RECORDING:24TH April,2012

Information recently made available to 247ureports.com through sources close to the happenings within the government house at Kano State reveal that the elder son of the Governor of Kano, Mustapha Kwankwaso was quizzed by the agents of the State Security Services [SSS] over a drug induced drunken altercation with an Imam and the men of the joint task force [JTF] at Kundila along Maiduguri road in Kano State.

The incident occurred on Sunday June 17, 2012 at Kundila along Maiduguri road at 1pm when the elder son of the State governor of Kano, Mustapha Kwankwaso aged in his mid-twenties drove in a Honda vehicle [aka discussion continues] with two other friends – and arrived at a traffic congestion caused by a JTF checkpoint. The driver of the Honda vehicle who was the son of the Governor, maneuvered the vehicle into the other lane facing the incoming traffic – in attempts to overtake the traffic congestion and thus the JTF checkpoint.

Unfortunate for the youngster, as he steered the vehicle violently into the other lane and began racing the vehicle in a manner deemed reckless, he was said to have nearly struck down an Imam of a nearby Mosque housed at a nearby housing estate. But the Imam was said to have ran into the sidewalk in attempt to save his life.

The people nearby who saw what had happened rushed to the aide of the Imam. As the residents comforted the Imam – who is said to be well known in the area – the son of the Governor pounced out of the vehicle in anger tantrum.

Mustapha, according to a police witness who to spoke to 247ureports.com revealed that when Mustapha alighted from the vehicle – that he was too drunk to stand up right “his speech was somehow” and the “boy looked dazed and his eyes were bloodshot”.

As Mustapha tried to speak, it was evident his tongue was bluish green in coloration – resulting from a new fashion drug popular among children of well to do men in Kano.

And so, as the clearly intoxicated Mustapha pounced out of his vehicle, the standers by were taken aback as he pounced on the Imam to begin raining insults and threats on the Imam – threatening to hand him over to the men of the JTF as a Boko Haram suspect. This quickly resulted to a rebuke from the people who had gathered to comfort the Imam. The rebuke further angered Mustapha – who then turned to open the trunk of his vehicle in a move to retrieve what was believed to be weapon. As he opened the trunk, he told them he will blast them. Accoring to the police, “he brought out a gun from the boot of his car“.

It took the quick intervention of an SSS officer stationed near the site of altercation who alerted the men of the JTF of the unfolding incident. As the JTF officers arrived, the young Mustapha introduced himself as the son of the State Governor – and quickly asked for the Imam to be dealt with. But the SSS officer who witnessed the entire brouhaha signaled to the JTF and briefed them of what had transpired and told them that he [SSS fellow] is determined to see that the Governor’s son pay for the unnecessary embarrassment of the Imam and nose-thumbing at the law. The SSS officer then detained the Governor’s son at the Kundila roundabout and alerted the director of SSS.

As the Director was contacted, he was told initially that the Governor’s son had pulled a dangerous weapon against the Imam and against the SSS officer. The Director’s first reaction was to issue a directive for the boy to be brought in Mustapha to the SSS office. This directive made it seem the Governor’s son was under arrest – or about to be arrested by SSS. Immediately, the Governor’s son began working the phone lines and pleading to be forgiven. Through the pleadings of the governor’s son and the intervention of other high ranking members of the State security apparatus – the Director of SSS cautioned Mustapha – and told him to report to the SSS office at a later date – to iron out the details of the case. The SSS Director, in talking to 247ureports.com, indicated that the governor’s son was never officially arrested.