Civil defence officer bags 5 years jail term for frauds
Alabi was in 2015 accused of 11 offenses including misrepresentation and criminal break of trust before Justice Halilu Yusuf of the court.
Yusuf said he was persuaded that 36-year-old litigant, really perpetrated the instance of criminal rupture of trust and liberated him from other 10 charges.
"The court thinks that its hard to substantiate the announcement made by the litigant while he was giving proof drove by his guidance and amid his round of questioning drove by the indictment direct,'' he said.
The judge said that the declaration given by the respondent when he was been driven in proof by his insight, Mr J.C Njikoye negated the ones he gave when he was being interrogated by the arraignment, Mohammed Saraya.
The judge said that the indictment could demonstrate the affirmation of criminal break of trust in view of the proof set under the steady gaze of the court by an arraignment witness.
Yusuf, who did not give a choice of fine, included that the announcement conceded by the litigant when the officers of the corps were researching the issues encompassing the case, additionally vouched for the respondent carrying out the wrongdoing.
As indicated by the judge, characters, for example, that of the respondent should be avoided people in general and that the judgment will fill in as an obstruction to the individuals who might need to copy the character.
In any case, the judge released and cleared the respondent for the other 10-consider charge he said that the arraignment neglected to demonstrate the charges past sensible uncertainty.
The indictment in the matter which began since April 2015 was the workplace of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice.
An aggregate number of nine witnesses were called by the indictment, who affirmed as Principal Witness 1 (PW1) to PW9 and narrative proof set apart as display A to I were offered by the arraignment.
Count number one as a detriment to the litigant was that he falsely gathered an auto having a place with one Mr Akaanan-Jacob Gwaza on an affectation that he would help the proprietor pitch it for the proprietor to pay an obligation owed a companion.
The respondent was accordingly sentenced to five years detainment on the premise of falsely gathering the auto.
The prosecutor, Mohammed Saraya had prior told the court amid his contention that the respondent asserted to have sold the auto and gave the proprietor N200, 000 from the N250, 000 he sold the auto, was false.
The prosecutor had additionally contended that there was no proof set under the watchful eye of the court with regards to the mode the respondent utilized as a part of paying the self-acclaimed cash to the auto proprietor.
Number two of the charge additionally said that the respondent purchased a Bajaj Motorcycle of N115, 000 from one Mr. Charlers Agwunoha and issued a flop check which skiped when the man went to the bank to gather the cash.
He was likewise blamed for issuing a failure check of N230, 000 to one Shorunke Temitayo in 2013 and another flop check of N560, 000 for Infinite Mercy Multi-Purpose Co-agent Ltd.
Different offenses incorporate the accumulation of cash from individuals in affectation that he will give occupations in the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps for the candidates.
The arraignment included that the offenses of the litigant were in opposition to areas 313, 31, 177, 291, 320 and 122 of the Penal Code, CAP 89 Law of the Northern Nigeria 1963. (NAN)
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