4th November, 2010
The convicted former Chief Executive Officer, CEO of Oceanic Bank Plc, Mrs. Cecilia Ibru, who is serving her six months jail term while receiving treatment for a cardiac related ailment at Reddington Hospital, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria, wants to be transferred to Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba.
Sources told P.M.NEWS yesterday that she is under intense pressure by the management of Reddington Hospital to be transferred from the hospital due to security reasons.
Consequently, Cecilia asked her lawyer to seek the order of the Federal High Court, Lagos, where she was jailed, to be moved out of the hospital to LUTH.
A new counsel, Grace Orakusi, P.M.NEWS gathered, filed the request for her transfer at the High Court on 29 October.
Cecilia, whose health had allegedly deteriorated before her conviction, had sought the order of the court to compel the State Security Service, SSS, to release her international passport to enable her travel abroad for medical treatment.
Before her conviction, the court acceded to her request but the passport was not released.
On the day of her plea bargain conviction, Cecilia was accompanied to the court by medical doctors during the entire trial process that day.
In the course of the trial, her lawyer, Professor Taiwo Osipitan, SAN, drew the attention of the court to her condition while inside the dock.
Consequent upon this, the presiding judge, Justice Dan Abutu, allowed her doctors  to have access to her.
Sources said if Cecilia is eventually transferred, she may be flown abroad for medical attention.
—Akin Kuponiyi
