Akingbola is standing trial alongside the General Manager of Tropics Finance Ltd., Bayo Dada, for allegedly stealing N47.1bn belonging to Intercontinental Bank (now Access Bank Plc).
The former bank chief had filed the application dated last March 19, before Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo, seeking the court to order the anti-graft agency to release his passport to enable him to travel to the United Kingdom for medical attention.
The EFCC also opposed separate applications by Akingbola and Dada praying the court to review a bail condition compelling them to be reporting to commission’s office every first working day in the week.
EFCC’s counsel, Mr. Edward Okpe, in opposing Akingbola’s application seeking to travel abroad for medical treatment, queried the qualification of its author.
Okpe added, “Also the Exhibit 1, the doctor’s report cannot be relied on because the purported author of the report failed to state his qualification.”
He also argued that many hospitals in Nigeria could handle Akingbola’s health problems.
But Akingbola’s counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), described EFCC’s grounds for opposing the application as “distractions”.
Olanipekun, who said the medical report was valid, insisted that Akingbola had the right to seek treatment from wherever he desired.
“It is the right of any person born of a woman to choose the person who is going to treat him for any ailment,” Olanipekun said.
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