BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE
BENIN — 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 fuelling
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.
The case was adjourned to August 21.

source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/uniben-lecturer-arraigned-for-receiving-bribe-for-students-transfer/

Very very waooo. Uniben at it again.