Ex-NIRSAL MD Aliyu Abdulhameed, others to be arraigned for alleged forgery
By Jeffrey Agbo
Ex-Managing Director of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) Plc, Aliyu Abdulhameed, will be arraigned by the police on March 13 on allegations bordering on document forgery.
The arraignment, which was earlier fixed for Wednesday, could not proceed due to the volume of cases before Justice Inyang Ekwo, NAN gathered.
Abdulhameed will be arraigned alongside Babangida Abdullahi, the 2nd defendant in the 10-count charge marked: FHC)ABJ/CR/555/2023 dated and filed November 28, 2023.
In the charge signed by CSP Celestine Odo, Legal/Prosecution Section of the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters, the defendants, and others now at large, were alleged to have, on October 23, 2023, conspired among themselves to commit an offence of forgery.
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In count two, the defendants, and others now at large, on October 23, 2023, were alleged to have conspired among themselves to commit an offfence.
The offences are said to be contrary to Section 3(6) and punishable under Section 1(2){c} of the Miscellaneous Offences Act, Cap. M17, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2010.
Former President Muhammadu Buhari had on December 1, 2022, sacked Abdulhameed on allegations of corruption.
NIRSAL, a $500m non-bank financial institution, is a creation of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) mandated to manage agribusiness-related credit risks in Nigeria.