by Topsy Oba
This was made known by the lead counsel of the EFCC, Rotimi Jacobs who alleged that he got security reports that Dr Babalakin was planning to elope the country. Jacob, while responding to the complaints by Babalakin’s lawyers, that armed men from the EFCC, are laying siege on the premises of the hospital, said that the alleged siege was meant to put the agency on alert to avoid a similar incident in the past.
Meanwhile, the arraignment of Babalakin and four others by EFCC over an alleged N4.7 billion fraud, schedule for yesterday, took a different turn at an Ikeja High Court, when the lead counsel, Chief Ebun Shofunde SAN, announced his withdrawal from the matter.
Before the new twist, Shotunde, at the last sitting informed the court of Babalakin’s admission at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital LUTH, over an undisclosed ailment. Babalakin alongside Alex Okoh, Stabilini Visioni Ltd, Bi-Courtney Ltd and Renix Nigeria Ltd are currently in the EFCC net over a 27 count charge filed by the commission for fraudulently assisting former governor of Delta State, James Ibori to transfer various sums of money through third party to some foreign accounts under the guise of purchasing a Challenger Jet Aircraft.
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