According to Sahara Reporters, a Federal High Court judge, Rita
Ofili-Ajumogobia, has been busted by detectives of the EFCC in a
hospital admission racket in Lagos.
Ofili-Ajumogobia on Wednesday morning told EFCC officials, by phone,
that she was on admission in a Lagos hospital in Ikoyi to explain away
the reason she could not respond to the anti-graft agency’s invitation
for interrogation in the last two days.
Five other judges had in the past two days responded to EFCC
invitations. Some of the judges were accompanied by their lawyers and
were reported to be cooperating with EFCC operatives investigating
alleged corruption in Nigeria’s judicial system.
Curiously, Ofili-Ajumogobia, one of the invited judges expected to show
up at the commission on Tuesday called in on Wednesday to claim she was
admitted into the “intensive care unit” of Golden Cross Hospital on
Bourdillon Road in Ikoyi but an attempt by EFCC agents to pay her a
“courtesy call” shows that she had not been to the hospital since
October 13, 2016.
EFCC detectives, however, found that a medical staff of the hospital was
trying to insert her name into their records as their patient. When
they could find her in the hospital they called her on her mobile phone
to ask where she was.
She restated that she was in the ICU. only to cut off the call as soon
as EFCC officials told her they have searched the private hospital and
couldn’t find her. EFCC officials told Sahara Reporters that the medical
director of the hospital has been invited to explain his role in the
latest saga.
