Court remands agent for illegally selling parcel of land

A Karmo Grade I Area Court, Abuja, on Tuesday ordered a  55-year-old agent,  Alhassan Lamaran, who illegally sold a parcel of land belonging to a businessman, be remanded in a correctional facility, pending bail application hearing. The police charged Lamaran with being in possession of property reasonably suspected to be stolen. The judge, Alhaji Inuwa […]

A Karmo Grade I Area Court, Abuja, on Tuesday ordered a  55-year-old agent,  Alhassan Lamaran, who illegally sold a parcel of land belonging to a businessman, be remanded in a correctional facility, pending bail application hearing.

The police charged Lamaran with being in possession of property reasonably suspected to be stolen.

The judge, Alhaji Inuwa Maiwada, ordered that the defendant be remanded in the Nigerian Correctional Service in Keffi and adjourned the case until Nov. 27.

Earlier, the prosecution counsel, Ijeoma Ukagha, alleged that the defendant committed the offence on Aug. 2013.

Ukagha  informed the court that the complainant, Benjamin Ochai, who resides in Maitama, reported the matter at the Life Camp Police station.

She said the complainant reported that sometime in 2009, he gave a friend, Abraham Sule, who is now at large,  his CofO to be used as collateral  to enable him  secure a loan from a bank

The prosecution added that the documents Sule  returned to him turned out to be fake.

Ukagha also said that in April 2019, he also discovered that one Aliyu Mustapha, who claimed to have bought the parcel of land from one Suleiman Musa for N10 million, had trespassed on the land.

She told the court that while interrogating Musa, he told the police that he bought the land from the defendant, who also gave him the original CofO.

Ukagha said the offence contravened Section 317 of the Penal Code law.

After the charge was read to him, he pleaded not guilty. (NAN)