An Upper Area Court 4 sitting in Yola, Adamawa state on Friday, remanded about 9 police job applicants over allegations of falsification of documents.
Those remanded at the correctional center include: Auwal Adamu, Momsisuri Shamaki, Emmanuel Dennis (Omo), Hyellengeri Alex, Faisal Muhammed, Terman Dandi Sunday, Moh'd A. Moh'd, Abubakar Gidado and Raphael Geoffrey.
The applicants were arrested with fake documents at the just concluded screening exercise for the recruitment of the police constables.
The affected applicants were discovered to have forged their documents in order to gain employment into the Nigeria police.
On their arraignment before Hon. Ibrahim Musa Ulenda, led Upper Area Court 4, the defendants pleaded guilty to the allegations of criminal conspiracy and forgery.
Arraigning the defendants, the prosecuting police officer, Operative Nurudeen Abubakar from the State Intelligence Department (SID) of the Nigeria Police, told the court that the offences contravene sections 60 and 351 of the penal code law.
Operative Nurudeen, informed the court that the Police Constables Recruitment Committee had on the 9th and 10th January, 2024, referred the case of conspiracy and forgery for prosecution.
According to him, some of the defendants falsified/ forged their dates of birth, First Leaving School Certificates and Police Constable Recruitment Application Forms and Confirmation Slips.
He said that Abubakar Gidado and Raphael Geoffrey were computer operators and the were the ones who forged Police Constable Recruitment Application Forms and Confirmation Slips for some of the defendants.
All the defendants pleaded guilty to the allegations levelled against them after which the the prosecuting police officer applied that the matter be adjourned for corroboration and possible summary trial.
The presiding judge granted the application and adjourned the matter to the 28th February, 2024 and ordered that the defendants be remanded in prison custody till then.
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