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April 1, 2019
$9.8mFraud: Court Grants Ex-NNPC GMD, Yakubu Permission To Travel For MedicalTreatment
TheFederal High Court, Abuja has granted former Group Managing Director, AndrewYakubu, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC permission totravel abroad for medical treatment.
Yakubuwho is charged with six counts bordering on money laundering filed anapplication seeking leave of the court to travel to the UK for a routinemedical check up.
TheGMD premised his application on the grounds that he had the medical conditionbefore the commencement of trial.
Healso told the court that he was previously granted permission to travel for thetreatment which he had stopped to commence trial.
Yakubuadded that in all the previous times he was granted permission, he returned ontime and duly returned his passport to the court’s registry.
Hefurther told the court that he had already booked an appointment with hisdoctor and that the estimated time he would be away would be three weeks.
Heprayed the court to grant the application to enable him attend to his health sothat he would be fit enough to stand trial.