The Chairman of the House Of Representatives Committee on Narcotics and Financial Crimes, Adams Jagaba, has denied any connection with the alleged $620,000 bribe which the then Chairman of the House’s Ad-Hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, Farouk Lawan, was said to have received from billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, in 2012.

At the resumed trial of Farouk Lawan in Abuja, Jagaba denied claims by Lawan that he handed over the alleged bribe received from Otedola to him with a covering.

Lawan was accused of accepting the bribe in exchange for the removal of Otedola’s company’s name, Zenon Petroleum and Gas Ltd, from the list of firms indicted by the house committee for allegedly abusing the fuel subsidy regime in 2012.

Although the prosecutor was unavailable for comments, lawyer to Lawan faulted the decision of the court to refuse his application seeking to recall a witness for further cross-examination.