WHY SSS WON’T GIVE BRIBE VIDEO TO POLICE

WHY SSS WON’T GIVE BRIBE VIDEO TO POLICE - State Security Service has not intervened in the police investigation into the $620,000 bribe scandal involving the suspended Chairman of the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on the Monitoring of Subsidy Regime because there has been no directive from the Presidency, investigation has revealed.

Chairman of Zenon Oil, Mr. Femi Otedola, had claimed that he gave the money to Lawan, on his demand, to remove the names of his companies from the list of oil firms indicted for fuel subsidy fraud by the committee.

The police had, in a letter dated June 13, 2012, addressed to the Director-General, SSS, Ekpenyong Ita, requested the release of the call logs of those involved in the alleged subsidy bribery in the House and the case file containing Otedola’s initial statement.

It was learnt that two weeks after receiving the letter, the SSS had neither responded nor send the call logs and videos of the exchange between Lawan and Otedola to the police. Source Abuja, Nigeria