Lawan Opens Up On Alleged $10m PIB Bribe

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has finally opened up on the allegation that he and Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila, collected a $10 million bribe to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB).

The alleged money was reportedly passed through a serving minister.

Rejecting the claims in an interview, Lawan said:

“People say anything or everything about the President, about the administration, about members of National Assembly, they call us names, and this is part of the intangible dividends of democracy.

“But we are determined to ensure that the space is wide open for everybody to say whatever he wants to say. But I will advise that don’t say things that are bad because people are in the habit of that.

“Recently somebody said $10 million was given to the Speaker and the Senate President to give to members of the National Assembly to pass 3% host community development fund (in the PIB),” Lawan said. “That is funny, but also very serious.

“I really want to take this opportunity to make exceptions to those kinds of unwarranted, unprovable, false and fake information being fed to the Nigerian public and the danger people will face with this is you cause unnecessary damage to the reputation of people.

“I had an occasion to take someone to court because of this kind of thing about three months ago, but Nigerians are better judges than anywhere else.

“So, the freedom of expression is there, probably more than anywhere in the world, but I want to caution that Nigerians should always think positive about their leaders and their administration and their governments and if they have issues they feel very strongly about, let them speak the truth and we are prepared to make corrections that we feel should be able to make us do better.”

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