Ex-AMAC manager charged with forging bizman’s land doc

A former Zonal Manager, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Lugard Edegbe, has been charged by the police over forging of land documents at Sabon Lugbe area of Abuja. The first information report (FIR) before Court 18, Wuse Magistrate Court, Abuja, indicated that the Inspector-General of Police received the petition from a businessman, Muhammad Bature, on […]

A former Zonal Manager, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Lugard Edegbe, has been charged by the police over forging of land documents at Sabon Lugbe area of Abuja.

The first information report (FIR) before Court 18, Wuse Magistrate Court, Abuja, indicated that the Inspector-General of Police received the petition from a businessman, Muhammad Bature, on June 12, 2017, alleging that Edegbe and one Aisha Bature (still at large) sometimes between 2009 and 2017 conspired and forged an offer of terms of grant of approval bearing the name Duruola Nig. Ltd. dated March 1998 in respect of the land, purportedly made by the zonal planning office of AMAC.

The FIR also alleged that Edegbe, being a public servant, knowingly framed an incorrect document in a manner that is likely to cause injury.

He was accused to have sold the plot of land measuring 2.7 hectares belonging to Bature to one Mrs Aisha Shettima.

Bature, testifying as a star witness, in the case between the Commissioner of Police and Edegbe, told the presiding Magistrate, Mrs. Elizabeth Wonni, at the resumed hearing of the case that he bought the land around April 2009 for N5million.

He said Duruolu Nig. Ltd. was the first name in the allocation before a change of ownership was done to Karmenla Vourla Holding Nig. Ltd.

Meanwhile, the magistrate, Mrs Wonni has adjourned the matter to March 24 for continuation of hearing.