Shasore was also alleged to have made a cash payment of the sum of $100,000 to Olufolakemi Adelore through Auwalu Habu and Wole Aboderin.
By Jeffrey Agbo
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday granted the former Attorney General of Lagos State, Olasupo Shasore, permission to travel abroad for medical treatment.
The ruling followed a motion filed and argued by Shasore’s team of lawyers, led by a former NBA President, Paul Usoro (SAN), and Olawale Akoni (SAN).
They told the court that Shasore had been diagnosed with lattice retinal degeneration to both the left and right eyes, as well as chronic rheumatologenous retinal detachment to the right eye.
The diagnosis reports issued by Prof. Tom Williamson, Consultant Ophthalmologist at The London Claremont Clinic of St. Thomas Hospital London were attached as Exhibit SS3.
Counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Bala Sanga, did not oppose the application, noting that, “only the living can stand trial.”
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Consequently, Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke granted Shasore’s request.
“The application praying this court’s discretion to travel for medical treatment in London, Britain dated December 30, 2022 without opposition is hereby granted as prayed.
“The defendant is permitted to travel on January 18 and return on February 5,” the judge ruled.
He later adjourned the case till February 21 for trial.
The anti-graft agency is accusing the former Attorney-General of Lagos of inducing one Olufolakemi Adelore into accepting cash payment of the sum of $100,000 without going through a financial institution.
Shasore was also alleged to have made a cash payment of the sum of $100,000 to Olufolakemi Adelore through Auwalu Habu and Wole Aboderin.
The charge also added that the accused made a cash payment of the sum of $100,000 to one Ikechukwu Oguine without going through a financial institution.
According to the EFCC, the sums exceeded the amount permitted by law for hand-to-hand transactions.
Adelore was at the time the Director, Legal, Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, while Oguine was Secretary to the Corporation and Coordinator, Legal Services, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
According to the anti-graft body, their involvement concerns their alleged roles in the arbitral proceedings instituted by Process and Industrial Developments Limited (P&ID) against the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources.