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       UNIBEN Lecturer Arraigned For ReceivingBribe For Student’s Trans
       fer
       By: Ebenezer Date: August 16, 2013, 4:06 am
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       FORMER Assistant Dean, Faculty of Law,
       University of Benin, Mr. Isu-Ochiora Okogeri,
       has been arraigned before a Benin High
       Court for allegedly accepting a bribe to
       facilitate the transfer of a female student to
       the Faculty of Law of the university.
       The university teacher is being charged on a
       one-count charge for enriching himself as a
       public officer by receiving N100,000.00 from
       one Omoluwabi Elogho with a promise to
       effect her course transfer to the faculty of
       law, an offence punishable under Section
       98(b)(11) of the criminal code.
       First Prosecution Witness (PW1), Edoseghe
       Oghogho Idahosa who is the head of the
       intelligence unit in the security department
       of the university, led by the state counsel,
       Kenneth Ugiagbe while giving evidence in
       the case No MCK/94C/2013, said the accused
       person committed the offence on December
       31, 2012.
       He told the court that the accused person,
       who was also a member of Intra-Faculty
       Transfer Board requested and received the
       alleged sum of money from the prospective
       student, who wanted to be transferred from
       the Faculty of Arts to the Faculty of Law.
       The witness added that following intelligent
       reports, his team advised the female student
       to play along, just as he said that the student
       informed his team that the lecturer had
       asked her to bring the cash to him in his
       faculty office instead of paying the said
       money into a bank account.
       He further told the court that his surveillance
       team closely monitored them to the faculty,
       where the accused person asked the female
       student to board his SUV and dropped her
       off near the main gate of the school, where
       he (witness) ordered the security officers at
       the gate to stop all the out-going vehicles, as
       the lecturer was being monitored.
       According to him, “I confronted the accused
       person over the said money allegedly given
       him by the female student and pleaded with
       him that search be carried out on his
       vehicle. He became shocked and
       dumfounded. I also cleared the way to
       enable him park his car at the security office
       which he rebuffed and sped off.
       ”The witness further stated that they
       pursued him with a motor bike to where he
       went to drop the said money in the exhaust
       pipe of an abandoned truck in the fueling
       station inside the school and drove off from
       the scene, unknown to him that he was
       closely monitored.
       The security officer also told the court that
       having engaged the accused person in a hot
       chase, he was later apprehended near the
       fire service station inside the campus and
       taken to the security post for interrogation,
       where he obliged statement.
       The security officer further said N17,000
       was recovered from him and the said N
       100,000 was recovered from where he had
       earlier hidden it.
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