Nine persons
including three National examinations Council (NECO) staff have been sentenced
to 12yrs imprison each for forgery.
One of the 10
arraigned before a Chief Magistrate Court 11 Minna, Hassan Ayuba who pleaded
not guilty to the three court charges was ordered to be reminded in prison
custody for further hearing.
The nine others who
pleaded guilty to the charges were summarily sentenced. Those sentenced are
Kashim Danladi Tauhid, Ahmed Tijjani, Philip Emenike Ubanatu, Abdulsalam
Mohammed Babangida, Ahmed Sanni while Nehemiah Andrew, Umaru Aliyu and
Christian Moses A.K.A Danjuma Musa are NECO staff.
Prosecutor, Ahmed
Danladi who is also the principal state counsel in the state Ministry of
justice had arraigned the culprits on a three count charge of forgery of the
Council’s SSCE Certificate, forged over 730 Nos of the Council’s Certificate,
over 427 Nos of NECO Examination slip print out, Niger state Certificate
of
indigeneship, 5 Nos statement result of the state College of Education and
other documents for the purpose of selling to various agents and buyers ranging
from N10,000, N25,000 and above. The third count charge is for counterfeiting
an official seal of NECO for the purpose of authenticating the forged
documents.
The offences are
contrary to sections 364 and 367 of the penal code under section 79. The
prosecutor had prayed the court to sanction them accordingly since they have
pleaded guilty to the charges.
Chief magistrate,
Hassan Mohammed therefore sentenced them to four years each on the three count
charges and did not accede to their plea describing the offence as grievous and
that the punishment will serve as a deterrent to others involved in the same
illegal trade.
The convicts had
pleaded for the court to be lenient on them being a first offender, married
with a lot of dependents on them.
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