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Court adjourns Uche Ogah’s trial to October 10

Court adjourns Uche Ogah’s trial to October 10

A Lagos Magistrate Court, Tinubu, has deferred the criminal trial of the President of Master Energy Oil and Gas Limited and Abia State governorship wannabe under the stage of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Uche Ogah and others to October 10.

Ogah, Deji Somoye and two firms, Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited and United Bank for Africa (UBA), were summoned by the Police on June 16, 2016 over affirmed misrepresentation.

No reason was given for the nonappearance of Chief Magistrate, Kike Ayeye, yet the court enlistment centers suspended the matter to the new date.

The police in control No. A/62/2016, said Ogah purportedly manufactured a Memorandum of Understanding between Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited and Mut-Hass Petroleum Limited at some point in March 2011.

The suspects others still everywhere, were charged to have produced the mark of one Mrs. Bridget Adeosun.

The police likewise charged that the bank supported Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited to open a record for the sake of Mut-Hass Petroleum, to execute the misrepresentation without applying its interior control systems in the opening of the record.

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The police had asserted that UBA permitted the said record to be opened at some point in 2011 at its territorial office in Palmgrove, Lagos, in break of the procurements of the Financial Institutions Act 2004.

Police prosecutor, ASP Henry Obiazi had told the court that the offenses repudiated areas 363 (3)(u), 408 and 409 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.

The charges read to some extent: "That you, Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, Uche Ogah, and others everywhere at some point in March 2011 at Ikeja, in the Lagos Magisterial District, conspired among yourselves to mind: fraud.

"That you, Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, Uche Ogah, and others everywhere, on the same date, time, place and in the previously stated authoritative locale, forged the mark of one Mrs. Bridget Adeosun and an archive known as MoU between Mut-Hass Petroleum Limited and Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, with a purpose that it might be in any capacity utilized or followed up on as authentic."

The litigants, in any case, argued not liable to the charges and were confessed to safeguard in the total of N200,000 each with one surety each in like whole.
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