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| Barrister Ayo |
The Medical Director of Federal
Medical Centre, Owo, Ondo State, Dr. Olufemi Omotoso has been ordered to be
arrested by a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on Monday.
The court issued a bench warrant against
Omotoso for failing to appear in court for arraignment in a N1.2 bribe case.
The medical director was charged to
court with his alleged accomplice, Ayo Owoka, who is a lawyer 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.
According to the EFCC spokesman,
Wilson Uwujaren, the duo allegedly conspired to offer a N1.2 million bribe to EFCC
agents on February, 27, 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.
Uwujaren said: “When the matter came
up today, Justice Lawal-Akapo expressed dissatisfaction that the arraignment
could not take place due to absence of Omotoso. He therefore ordered operatives
of the EFCC to arrest Omotoso and produce him in court on 26 January 2015 for
the arraignment.”
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