The Unbiased Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee has arraigned the serving Provost of the Federal School of Training (Technical) in Zamfara State, Hauwau Abdulkarim, alongside a lecturer with the Sokoto State School of Training, Abdullahi Boyi, over alleged certificates forgery.
ICPC accused the 2 defendants of forging an appointment letter and subsequent use of the identical for utility for the place of the Provost on the faculty.
They had been additionally accused of creating false statements to ICPC officers in the middle of the investigation, which is an offence below Part 25(1) (a) and punishable below Part 25 (ii) (b) of the Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Act 2000.
An announcement launched on Sunday by the fee’s spokesperson, Demola Bakare, famous that the defendants pleaded not responsible to the six prices most popular in opposition to them.
Depend one of many prices reads, “That you simply Hauwa’u Gimbiya Mukhtar Abdulkarim (f) and Abdullah Boyi (m) generally within the 12 months 2023 or thereabout, at Sokoto, throughout the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court docket, conspired to do an unlawful act to wit: forgery of a letter of “Notification for Appointment” to the Submit of Chief Lecturer on COMPCASS 14 with impact from January 1, 2017, and also you thereby dedicated an offence opposite to part 59(1) and punishable below part 60(2) of the Sokoto State Penal Code Legislation,2019.”
Bakare stated the defendants’ counsels, Dr Muhammad Aliyu and Mr M.S. Diri, respectively, moved for purposes for bail on behalf of their shoppers.
“They requested the courtroom to think about cheap phrases for bail citing the defendants’ established positions and cooperation through the investigation,” including that the ICPC’s counsel, Mr Suleiman Ahmad, didn’t oppose the bail purposes.
He stated the trial decide, Justice Muhammad Sambo, after contemplating the purposes, granted bail below particular circumstances designed to make sure the defendants’ continued presence all through the trial proceedings.
“The bail circumstances require every defendant to offer two sureties who’re everlasting residents of Sokoto State, with every surety signing a bond of ₦1,000,000.
“Following the granting of bail, the ICPC prosecutor requested a date for trial to begin, emphasising the fee’s preparedness to current witnesses and proof in help of the fees.
“Justice Sambo adjourned the matter to November 21, 2024, when the listening to is ready to start,” he stated.