By Mabel Yakubu
Kaduna – A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kaduna on Friday ordered the remand of a 40-year-old businessman, Umar Bello, after his brother, Umar Murfar, withdrew as his surety.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Zainab Mohammed, ordered that the defendant be remanded until he got another surety.
At the resumed hearing, Murfar had told the court that his withdrawal as a surety to the defendant was because the defendant had been giving him problems.
He said that he had spent more than he bargained for in the trial and added that his brother had not been cooperative.
Bello was first arraigned on Aug. 20, 2016 for alleged criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, cheating and forgery.
The complainant, Abubakar Idris of Mando area of Kaduna, had written a petition to the Commissioner of Police, Kaduna State.
The prosecutor, Insp. Sunday Baba, said that the defendant and one Samson Ronald now at large conspired and forged a document of a plot of land located on Mando Road, kaduna.
He said the defendant sold the plot of land to the complainant for N1.4 million and converted the money to their personal use knowing that the land document was forged.
The defendant had pleaded not guilty to the charges and the magistrate granted him bail of N50, 000 with one surety in like sum.