The Kano State High Court sitting in Kano has sentenced a lawyer, Abdullahi Mohammed Hanga, to two years imprisonment for forgery.

According to a statement made available to The Star on Tuesday by spokesperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Wilson Uwujaren, the lawyer was jailed last Friday after being found guilty of forgery based on four-count charges bordering on uttering and forgery preferred against him by the anti-graft agency.

At the point of arraignment, the convict pleaded not guilty to the four count charges, leading to a trial.

In the course of the trial, prosecution counsel, Musa Isah, called four witnesses and tendered many documents that were admitted as exhibits by the court.

Delivering judgement, the presiding judge, Justice Aisha Mahmud, convicted Hanga on count 3 but discharged and acquitted him on count 1, 2 and 4.

The Kano-based lawyer was subsequently sentenced to two years imprisonment with a fine option of N250,000

Hanga’s journey to prison started when a petitioner alleged that he sold a property meant for a specified buyer, already named in a document, to one of his relations and forged the prepared document to reflect the name of the new buyer.

He was also alleged to have converted the proceeds of the sale of the property to his personal use.

The Star