Arraigned in court on January 23, 2023, the chief magistrate is to determine bail for alleged OBT and degree forgeries.
Salihu Nasiru Ibrahim, a 22-year-old with a dark complexion, was apprehended by Command agents in Port Harcourt in connection with a scheme involving N15 million for the purchase of US dollars.
The accused, Ibrahim, who is on trial at Port Harcourt Chief Magistrate Court 10 presided over by A.O. Amadi-Nna. He is reportedly the son of a Director at the National Agricultural Biotechnology Development Agency in Abuja.
Ibrahim is accused of receiving N15 million from Grace Ogolo so as to change the naira for dollars at the official rate at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), but failed to do so and failed to return the money since July 2022, according to a charge sheet.
According to the charge sheet created by SP Sewari Alphaeus, the offense violated Sections 1 (b) and (c) of the Advance Fee Fraud Laws of the Federation 2006 and is penalized under Sections 1 (2,3).
Ibrahim was accused of forging a police identity card in count two in order to pass for a police officer.
On Monday, January 16, when the case was called for bail, the defense team, under the direction of Leticia Mukoro, cited Section 18 of the Magistrate Court Law of the court the authority to give bail to the accused.
According to Mukoro, the Supreme Court held that the Chief Magistrate could issue bail as long as the case did not include the death penalty.
The complainant and defendant already had a relationship, and it was said that Ibrahim was not an employee of the Bureau de Change (BDC) or the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), therefore she did not expect him to convert money into foreign currency.
The accused was a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, she said, and should be left to serve his country.
However, the defense of bail by the prosecutor was not accepted.
Further details of the charge, according to him, showed that fabricating a police identity with which Ibrahim wishes to participate in the NYSC constituted a major offense.
Above importantly, he insisted, the court lacked the authority to set bail, he stated that the parties were not in talks about one.
What a shame, since great leaders find reasons to achieve despite, so no room for failure. Bribery, corruption, and government that fosters and/or maintains widespread illiteracy and the mass impoverishment of others by personal amassment of the public money, are finally the main causes of those evils.
Regarding a settlement, he stated that the parties were not in talks about one. However, the Chief Magistrate set a deadline of January 23, 2023 for the decision on the bail request. In this post, people and the political system sees this act as a bad one.
However, the Chief Magistrate set a deadline of January 23, 2023 for the decision.
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