Managing Director of Abuja-based Alliance Hospital, Dr. Christopher Otabor, has been barred from traveling outside Nigeria by Justice Keziah Ogbonnaya, of Federal Capital Territory, , High Court over a case of alleged organ, , harvest. The 52-year-old Dr. Otabor and three staff of his hospital, Alliance Hospital, were before the court on charges of organ…
“The offences were said to be contrary to Section 20 subsection two of the Trafficking in Persons Enforcement and Administration Act, 2015 and punishable under Section 20 subsection of same Act. The defence counsel had argued that Dr. Otabor has continued to fulfill the bail condition by reporting daily at NAPTIP headquarters except on dates slated for the court sittings.
Mr. Tahir also submitted that apart from the fact that the 4th defendant has nothing to show that his son is sick abroad as claimed, he has not proposed a condition for the variation of his bail condition and also failed to provide a surety to stand for him hence grating him a variation that will enable him travel out of Nigeria is tantamount to releasing him without security for his bail.
The Court was also mindful that the defence has not opened its case as yet and a hearing on a no-case submission advanced by the defence has been fixed for July, 2nd, 2024. Former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, along with his brother, Ahmad, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of alleged contract fraud amounting to N19.4 billion. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned Sirika, his brother, and a company owned by Abubakar–Enginos Nigeria Limited, on an amended 10-count charge related to the offense. Sirika…
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