Press Release
The Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today arraigned one Hassan Muhammed Bashar
of Federal College of Education (Technical )Gusau, Zamfara State, and two
others, Aliyu Muhammed and Murtala Abubakar before Justice Nasiru
Umar Gumi of Zamfara State High Court, Gusau, on a 12-count charge that
borders on conspiracy and forgery.
The accused persons
sometime in 2010, allegedly connived and forged land title and bank documents
with which they claimed the sum of N4.2million paid to their victim, one
Abubakar Maishanu, by a telecoms company as leasehold for a plot of land with
No. B5239 located at Gummi town, Gummi Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
Count one of the charges reads, “That you Hassan Muhammed Bashar and Aliyu
Muhammed sometime in 2010 within the Judicial Division of the High Court of
Justice Gusau agreed among yourselves to do an illegal act to wit; forgery and
thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 96 and punishable under
Section 97 of the Penal Code.”
All three accused
persons pleaded not guilty to all the charges and were granted bail in
the sum of N500,000 each, with two sureties in like sum, who must have landed
properties with Certificate of Occupancy within the jurisdiction of the
court.
The case was
adjourned to 15th January, 2015.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media &
Publicity
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