More trouble for Senator Misau as federal government adds 3 more counts to his forgery case

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- The federal government has amended the charges filed against Senator Isa Misau

- The government's action means that the number of counts against the senator has risen from seven to 10

- In the amended charges, the count of falsely making documents which he allegedly submitted to INEC when he was seeking election to the Senate has been included

The federal government has amended the charges of making false documents filed before a Federal High Court (FCT) in Abuja against an All Progressives Congress senator representing Bauchi Central senatorial district, Isah Misau.

With the amended charges signed by Kayode Alilu of the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation, and filed on Friday, October 27, the number of counts has risen from seven to 10.

NAIJ.com gathered that Justice Anwuli Chikere, to whom the case was assigned, has fixed Tuesday, November 7, for arraignment.

The amended charges are different from the case before the High Court of the FCT in Abuja where the senator had been arraigned on five counts of spreading injurious falsehood against the Inspector-General of Police Ibrahim Idris, in the media.

In the amended charges before the Federal High Court, Abuja, the prosecution accused the senator of making and “uttering” false documents which he allegedly submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) when he was seeking election to the Senate in 2011 and 2014.

The documents, which he was said to have falsely made and uttered, comprised affidavits in support of personal particulars, statutory declaration of age deposed to at the FCT High Court and the Bauchi state Health Management Board Birth Certificate with number 28799.

But in two of the three additional counts, he was accused of making and uttering a Bauchi state Health Management Board Birth Certificate with number 141400C which he allegedly submitted to INEC on January 28, 2011, knowing it to be false.

Although he was accused in the first of set of counts of uttering Statutory Declaration of Age deposed to at the High Court of the FCT, Abuja on December 15, 2014, he was not charged with the actual offence of falsely making the document.

In the amended charges, the count of falsely making the document has been included.

The various birth certificates and statutory declarations of age submitted to INEC by the senator at different times were said to have disclosed different dates of birth.

NAIJ.com checks indicates that the AGF office had on Thursday, October 19, arraigned the senator before the High Court of the FCT in Maitama, Abuja, on five counts of making injurious falsehood against the Nigeria Police Force and the IGP.

Part of the allegations by Misau, a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police, considered as injurious falsehood was that police officers allegedly paid as much as N2.5 million to get special promotion and posting through the Police Service Commission.

The prosecution also alleged that Misau falsely accused the IGP of diverting money meant for the purchase of Armoured Personnel Carriers, Sport Utility Vehicles or other exotic cars.

Misau was also said to have falsely accused the IGP of making almost half of the mobile commanders in the country the people of his Nupe extraction.

The trial judge, Justice Ishaq Bello, who is the Chief Judge of the FCT High Court, has fixed Tuesday, November 28 and Wednesday, November 29 for trial.

The two cases now pending before the FCT High Court and the Federal High Court were filed on the same day, Tuesday, October 10.

Two of the additional counts in the amended charges filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja read:

“That you lsah Hamman Misau of Hamman Misau Residence, Turaki street, Misau, Bauchi state on or about January 28, 2011 at the Independent National Electoral Commission headquarters, Abuja within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did make a false document to wit: Bauchi state Health Management Board Birth Certificate with Registration No. 141400C which you submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission knowing it to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(2)(c) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act Cap M17, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under the same section of the Act.”

“That you Isah Hamman Misau of Hamman Misau Residence, Turaki street, Misau, Bauchi state on or about January 28, 2011 at Abuja within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did utter a false document to wit: Bauchi state Health Management Board Birth Certificate Registration No. 141400C by submitting same to the Independent National Electoral Commission knowing it to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(2)(c) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act Cap M17, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and punishable under the same section of the Act.”

Meanwhile, IGP Ibrahim Idris has agreed to appear before the Nigerian Senate over the allegations by Senator Misau.

The police boss is now to appear before a Senate ad-hoc committee probing the allegations by Misau, even though he stressed that the allegations are legal issues.

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