FIJ
Hauwa’u Gimbiya Mukhtar Abdulkarim, the provost of the Federal College of Education (Technical) (FCET), Gusau, Zamfara, has been accused of applying for her current role with a forged appointment letter.
On Sunday, The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) stated that Abdulkarim is being tried alongside Abdullahi Boyi, a lecturer with the Sokoto State College of Education (SSCE) Sokoto, for forging a certificate.
The agency said the provost had forged the appointment letter which enabled her to get the role at the college, as she had lied about her appointment as Chief Lecturer on COMPCASS 14, on January 1, 2017, which violates section 60(2) of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law, 2019.
The academicians are being tried at the Sokoto State High Court in front of Justice Muhammad Aliyu Sambo on a six-count charge in a suit marked ‘SS/213C/2024’.
“The duo were arraigned on a six-count charge, registered as charge No. SS/213C/2024, before Hon. Justice Muhammad Aliyu Sambo at the Sokoto State High Court,” the ICPC’s statement reads in part.
“ICPC accused the two defendants of forging an appointment letter and subsequent use of same for application for the position of Provost at the Federal College of Education (Technical) Gusau, Zamfara State.”
Of the six charges, one of them includes the forged appointment letter and certificate while the other details how they provided false information to officers of the ICPC, an abuse under the ICPC Act of 2000.
“That you Hauwa’u Gimbiya Mukhtar Abdulkarim (F) and Abdullah Boyi (M) sometime in the year 2023 or thereabout at Sokoto within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, conspired to do an illegal act to wit: forgery of a letter of ‘Notification for Appointment’ to the Post of Chief Lecturer on COMPCASS 14 with effect from 1st January 2017 and you thereby committed an offence contrary to section 59(1) and punishable under section 60(2) of the Sokoto State Penal Code Law, 2019,” the ICPC quotes one of the charges.
Justice Sambo granted them a bail of N1 million and the provision of two sureties who are permanent residents of Sokoto after Abdulkarim and Boyi pleaded not guilty to all six charges.
However, the judge set the next hearing for November 21.
THIS STORY FIRST APPEARED IN FIJ
