Court registrar, banker sent to detention over forged affidavit

..,A Suleja Senior Magistrate Court has ordered the detention of a court registrar, Aliyu Ismaila Evuti and Abdullahi Ismaila, a banker, for forging court affidavits and impersonation.

……..The presiding senior magistrate, Hajiya Halima Alhassan, gave the order Wednesday and turned down the bail application moved by the banker for defense counsel, Barrister Nuhu Edah.

The two accused were arraigned on two separate charges by the police on the allegations of forging court affidavit to unsuspecting members of the public in Suleja.

…..Abdullahi Ismaila, a banker and Aliyu Ismaila Evuti, a court registrar with the Niger state judiciary are separately standing trial on three count charges which bothered on using forged document, impersonation and forgery.

The court registrar was separately arraigned on two count charges which bothered on breach of trust by servant and negligent conduct which contravened section 314 and 196 of the penal code law.

…..The banker was also separately arraigned on three count charges of using a forged document, impersonation and forgery punishable under sections 179, 321, and 366 of the penal code. law.

According to the charge sheet marked Sul/ Smc/Cr/41/2023,

” on 20th of October 2023, You Abdullahi Ismaila also known as ” Man of God.” Used genuine forged Court Affidavit you signed as the Commissioner of Oath and issued it to one Sunday Bitrus of Zuba FCT Abuja who came to UBA Bank to effect correction of his names.”