Police dock 5 for alleged forgery, cheating.

The Police have arraigned four persons before an Abuja Magistrate’s Court for alleged joint act to commit forgery and cheating.

The accused were Bridget Micah, Paul Ugochukwu, Abdul Lawal, Ibrahim Ado and Paul Chogodo.

Arraigning the accused, the prosecutor, Inspector Isenyo Adoche, said the offences were committed on Feb. 16, March 13, and April 23.

The complainant,Mary Ameh, told the court that on Feb. 16, she received a call from the accused concerning her documents, which she submitted to the National Assembly Service Commission for employment.

She claimed that the accused demanded the sum of N45,000, which she paid into the account of Bridget Micah number 4393010036494 with First Bank of Nigeria Plc.

Ameh said she received another call on March 13, from one Peter Kadiri, now at large, who demanded that the sum of N15,000 be paid into his Oceanic Bank account number 0440001022469 to speed up the employment process.

She told the court that she made the payment into the account of the accused, who is now at large, on the same day she received the call.

On April 23, she said Abdul Lawal called her again and handed over a letter of offer of employment from the commission and collected the sum of N50,000.

Ameh said she later discovered that the appointment letter was fake thereby making the accused liable for the said offences.

Magistrate Binta Mohammed, however, granted them bail in the sum of N100,000, with a surety in like sum, who must to be resident within the jurisdiction of the court.

Mohammed also said the surety must sign an undertaking that they would produce the 6th accused Kadiri Peter, now at large, on the day of the next hearing of the case.

She adjourned the case to August 18, for further hearing.