Court Remands Retired Judicial Staff Over Impersonation, Forgery

365news gathered that two retired officials of the state judiciary have been ordered to be detained in custody for alleged forgery and impersonation by Senior Magistrate Court Presiding Magistrate Abdullahi Bawa of Senior Magistrate Court, Paiko, Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State.

Both of the accused individuals are from Paiko town: Danjuma Bawa is a retired employee of the Paiko Magistrate Court, while Usman Abdullahi is a retired employee of the High Court Minna.

The two allegedly provided a forged affidavit to Moses Mathew of the Lugudna area of Paiko, a retired officer of the Paikoro LG, who negotiated and procured the document on behalf of his wife, Mrs. Serah Bahago, and Mustapha Abdullahi, the headmaster of Butu Primary School, who did so on behalf of one Amadu Adamu.

The First Police Report, FIR, revealed that the two retired judicial workers allegedly used an old stamp of Magistrate Court Paiko, signed and stamped the said fake affidavit form and issued to their victims.

According to the FIR, “All the fake affidavit forms collected from Usman Abdullahi and Danjuma Bawa did not serve the purposes intended as it was rejected from bank”.

“That both Usman Abdullahi and Danjuma Bawa were having some official court documents in their possession after retirement from the service of Niger government.”

The report also revealed that the two rejected fake affidavit forms were recovered and attached to the case diary as evidence and that the deals were negotiated at private homes of the accused person’s respectively.

However, when the Prosecutor, Inspector Mathew Raymond read the charges, the accused persons pleaded not guilty.

Hence the prosecutor ordered the court to deny them bail as investigation into the case was still ongoing.

The presiding Magistrate Abdullahi Bawa then adjourned the case till November 22 2022 and the accused be kept in the custody of the correctional centre.