A Kano State
High Court presided over by Justice Lawal Wada today November 18, 2013
convicted and sentenced Augustine Olayinka and Oke Anone to eight years
imprisonment with option of N100, 000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) fine
each.
The duo were
arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday
November 14, 2013 on a 6-count charge of forgery. They allegedly
presented themselves as sureties to suspects under investigation and submitted
fake Certificates of Occupancy for landed properties in the Unguwar Dosa area
of Kaduna
metropolis as bond to the Commission.
One
of the
charges reads, “that you Augustine Olayinka and Oke Anone sometime in
2012 at Kano within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Kano State
with intent to defraud forged a
document titled CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY
NO. KD4261 issued to plot NO. BT 486c U/Dosa in the name of Dauda Yakubu
purported to have been issued and signed by the authority of the Ministry of
Lands, Survey and Country
Planning Kaduna
State and you thereby
committed an offence contrary to section 362 and punishable under section 364
of the Penal Code.”
The two
accused persons pleaded guilty to all the charges and were convicted accordingly.
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