EFCC Press Release
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A Lagos
High Court sitting in Ikeja today issued a bench warrant against the Medical
Director of Federal Medical Centre, Owo, Ondo State,
Dr Olufemi Omotoso for failing to appear in court for arraignment in a N1.2
bribe case.
Omotoso
and his alleged accomplice Ayo Owoka, who is a lawyer, were charged to court by
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 5-count charge
bordering on conspiracy, offering of gratification and giving false information
to a public officer.
The duo allegedly conspired to
offer a N1.2 million bribe to operatives of the Commission on 27 February 2014.
Owoka, 47, was arrested as he tried to
bribe the officers and, on being questioned, confessed that the money was given
to him by Omotoso to compromise the investigation into a case of contract
inflation, abuse of office, stealing, embezzlement and misappropriation of
funds at the Federal Medical Centre, Owo.
When the
matter came up today, Justice Lawal-Akapo expressed dissatisfaction that the
arraignment could not take place due to his absence to Omotoso.
He
therefore ordered operatives of the EFCC to arrest Omotoso and produce him in
court on 26 January 2015 for the arraignment.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media &Publicity
15th
December, 2014,
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