Two employees of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, have been charged before the Ebute Metta Magisrate court for stealing N3m from the hospital.
Babatunde Williams, 34, and Peter Eboye, 49, specialised in duplicating the hospital receipts. They took patients, who wanted to pay bills to a place where the receipt would be cloned.
The value of the receipts would then be paid to the head of the group, who would pay the workers for bringing the patients.
The defendants were arraigned on two counts of stealing.
The charge read “That you, Babatunde Williams, Peter Eboye, and others now at large, on August 29, 2013, at 10.30am at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba, Lagos, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did steal N3m property of LUTH.”
Their defence counsel, Saka Bello, and Spurgeon Ataene, asked for their bail in liberal terms.
Mrs. Demi Ajayi, the Chief Magistrate, admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties each in like sum.
“The sureties must be above 40 years, resident in Lagos, and have evidence of tax payment. One of them must be a blood relation, who can prove address, identity and means of livelihood,” she added.
The case was adjourned till January 13, 2014.
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