Chiemelie Ezeobi
A Federal Capital Territory Excessive Court docket sitting in Gwagwalada, Abuja has discovered responsible and convicted one Mrs. Ramat Mercy Mba, a mom of 5 youngsters responsible of forging the signature of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Workers, the late Abba Kyari.
In line with Demola Bakare, performing
Director, Public Enlightenment and Schooling/ Spokesperson for the Fee, the presiding decide, Justice Ibrahim Mohammad nonetheless deferred the sentencing of the convict until Thursday, sixteenth of Could, 2024 however directed that she needs to be remanded in Suleja Correctional Centre.
The Impartial Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC) had arraigned Mba in June, 2022 on a 5-count cost bordering on dishonest, fraud and forgery opposite to Part 13 of the Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Act 200 and Sections 320 (b), 366 of the Penal Code Cap 89 legal guidelines of Northern Nigeria.
One of many counts learn: “THAT you RAMAT MERCY MBA (F) generally within the month of October, 2019 or thereabout at Abuja throughout the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court docket did fraudulently induce one Mr. Ismail Adewole Oladipupo, an unsuspecting job seeker and picked up the sum of Seven Hundred Thousand Naira solely N700,000.00 from him which sum was paid into your personal account beneath the guise of securing employment for him on the Nationwide Area Analysis and Growth Company. (NASDRA), AND you thereby dedicated an offence opposite to Part 320(b) and punishable beneath Part 322 of the Penal Code Cap 89 Legal guidelines of Northern Nigeria.”
In the middle of the trial, ICPC’s Prosecutor, Mr. Hamza Sani, Esq. led proof earlier than the court docket on how the convict dishonestly induced her victims within the guise of securing employment for them with authorities businesses like Federal Inland Income Providers (FIRS), Nationwide Area Analysis Growth Company (NASRDA) and the Impartial Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC).
Moreover, the documentary proof tendered reveals that the convict fraudulently solid a letterhead paper of the Workplace of the Chief of Workers to former President Muhammad Buhari, Abba Kyari and his signature.
The letter, addressed to the Chairman of ICPC was a request for the recruitment of three people by the Fee. Nevertheless, the late Chief of Workers, in a written correspondence that was additionally tendered in court docket as exhibit distanced himself or his workplace for authorising the letter.
In his judgement, Justice Ibrahim Muhammad convicted the mom of 5 youngsters on counts 1, 2, 3 and 5 that deal on dishonest and forgery whereas she was discharged on depend 4 that offers with felony.
