A former federal legislator from Kano State, Farouk Lawan, has been released after completing a five-year prison sentence for soliciting and accepting a bribe of $500,000.
He was convicted for attempting to extort a $3 million bribe from Femi Otedola, a billionaire oil tycoon from Nigeria, during his time as the chairman of the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee that was probing fuel subsidy fraud in 2012.
