Niger Senior Magistrate Court orders remand of 2 ex. Staff.
By: Yahaya Zakka Minna.
Senior magistrate court Paiko in Niger State has ordered the remand in correctional center of two retired officer of Judiciary for offences bordering on forgery and impersonation.
The accused person’s Danjuma Bawa a retired staff of Paiko magistrate court and Usman Abdullahi a retired staff of High Court Minna all male from Paiko town, were alleged to have issued a fake affidavit to one Mister Moses Mathew of Lugudna area Paiko who is also a retired officer of Paikoro local government area who negotiated and collected fake affidavit form on behalf of his wife Mrs Serah Bahago and Mustapha Abdullahi a Headmaster of Butu primary school on behalf of one Amadu Adamu .
According to the First police report, the two accused person’s used an old stamp of Magistrate Court Paiko ,signed and stamped the said fake affidavit form and issued to their victims .
The police report also reads that all the fake affidavit forms collected from Usman Abdullahi and Danjuma Bawa did not serve the purposes intended as it was rejected from Bank .
That both Usman Abdullahi and Danjuma Bawa were having some official court documents in their possession after retirement from the service of Niger government .
The first police report have it that the two rejected fake Affidavit forms were recovered and attached to the case diary as evidence and that the deals were negotiated at private homes of the accused person’s respectively.
The accused person’s pleaded not guilty of the charges, the Prosecutor, Inspector Mathew Raymond ordered the court to refuse the bail of the accused person’s as investigation into the case is still in progress.
The Presiding Magistrate Abdullahi Bawa after careful study of the case adjourned to the twenty second of November for further hearing on the case and ordered them to be remanded in the Correctional center.
