The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on November 12, 2013 arraigned Augustine Olayinka and Oke Anone before Justice Lawal Wada of Kano State High Court on 6-count charges of forgery.

The duo presented themselves as sureties to suspects under investigation and submitted fake Certificates of Occupancy for landed properties in the Unguwar Dosa area of Kaduna metropolis as bond to the commission.

One of the charges reads, “that you Augustine Olayinka and Oke Anone sometime in 2012 at Kano within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Kano State with intent to defraud forged a document titled CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY NO. KD4261 issued to plot NO. BT 486c U/Dosa in the name of Dauda Yakubu purported to have been issued and signed by the authority of the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Country Planning, Kaduna State and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 362 and punishable under section 364 of the Penal Code”.

The accused persons pleaded guilty.

Justice Wada adjourned further hearing in the case to November 18, 2013.

Media & Publicity Unit