The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC has
arraigned the trio of Haladu Ibrahim (Mai Anguwa), Sa’idu Balarabe Sulaiman and
Baba Sale Sarkin Magina before Justice Tukur Mu’azu of Kaduna State High Court
on a 4- count charges bordering conspiracy, forgery and obtaining money
by false pretence.
The trio were alleged to have conspired among
themselves to sell two plots of land behind the International Trade Fair
Complex, Kaduna valued at N3, 000,000.00, using forged documents.
One of the charges read, “That you Haladu
Ibrahim, Saidu Balarabe Sulaiman, Aisha Mohammed and Baba Sale Sarkin Magina
sometime in 2011 within the Jurisdiction of the High Court of Kaduna State
dishonestly used as genuine a certain document, to wit: Offer of Grant/Regrant
of Statutory Right of Occupancy No. KDL/87365 which you knew to be a forged
document and that you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 366 of
the Penal Code and punishable under Section 364 of the same Law”.
The accused persons pleaded not guilty to all the
charges and were admitted to bail in the sum of one million naira each (N1m)
and one surety in like sum. The sureties must not be less than a level 14
officer in the civil service and they are to deposit their International
Passports with the court.
The case was adjoined to February 19, 2015 for
trial.
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