Mary Okoh guilty of the offence of forgery contrary to Section 362(a) of
the Penal Code which is punishable under Section 364 of the same law.
You
forged
a
document captioned
Federal
Government Certificate
of
Occupancy with No: 77/77/73 dated 7th August 2001 and I convict you of
the offence.
Count three of the charge reads thus:
“COUNT THREE:
That you Mary Okoh on or about February 29, 2012 in Abuja
within the judicial Division of the High Court of Justice of the
FCT
forged
a
certain
document
captioned
FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY with no. 77/77/73
dated 7th August, 2001 and caused the said document to be
acted upon as emanating from Federal Housing Authority and
you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 366 and
punishable under Section 364 of the Penal Code LFN (Abuja)
1990.”
Section 366 of the Penal Code provides as follows:
“Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly uses as genuine any
document which he knows or has reason to believe to be a
forged document, shall be punished in the same manner as if
he had forged such document.”
The particulars of the offence for which the defendant is charged
under Count 3 is that she forged the document, Federal Government
Certificate of Occupancy with No. 77/77/73 dated 7th August 2001 and
caused it to be acted upon as a document from the Federal Housing
Authority.
The defendant has been convicted of forgery of the certificate of
occupancy with No. 77/77/73. By Count 3 of the charge she is accused
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