A
50-year-old pastor, Keiggy Ogarekpe, on Wednesday, appeared in a Wuse Zone 2
Senior Magistrates` Court, charged with pretending to be a brother to the
Director-General of the State Security Service (SSS).
Ogarekpe,
was charged with impersonating a public servant and cheating.
The
prosecutor, Paul Igoche, told the court that between Oct. 20 and Oct. 26, the
accused pretended to be the younger brother of the DG, and collected N800,000
from one David Solomon with a promise to influence a contract for him with the
NNPC.
Igoche
said the offence contravened the provisions of sections 132, 322 and 324 of the
penal code.
When
the charges were read to the accused, he pleaded not guilty and denied all the
allegations.
The
counsel to the accused, Mr Felix Ipogah, applied for the accused to be granted
bail on liberal conditions.
Ipogah,
told the magistrate that the accused had been granted an unconditional release
by Justice Abubakar Mohammed of the FCT High Court.
“The
case before Justice Mohammed is an enforcement of Fundamental Human Rights
case,” he said.
The
Senior Magistrate, Mr Christopher Oba, admitted the accused to bail in sum of
N1 million and a surety in like sum.
Oba
ordered that the surety must be a civil servant not below Grade level 10
and residing within the court’s jurisdiction.
He
adjourned the case to Feb. 17, 2014 for further hearing. (NAN)
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Vanguard
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