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Thursday 15 August 2013

UNIBEN lecturer arraigned over alleged bribe

A former Assistant Dean in the Faculty of Law, University of Benin, Isu-Ochiora Okogeri, has been arraigned in court for allegedly taking bribe to facilitate change of course of a female student to the Faculty of Law of the institution.

Okogeri is standing trial on a one-count charge of corrupting himself as a public officer by receiving N100,000 from one a student (name withheld), with a promise to effect her course change to the Faculty of Law, an offence punishable under section 98(b)(11) of the criminal code.

Giving evidence in the case with Charge No MCK/94C/2013, the 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, said the accused person committed the offence on December 31, 2012.

Source: TRIBUNE

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