ABUJA – Mr. Aliyu Abdulhameed, the former Managing Director of Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) Plc, is set to be arraigned by the police on March 13 on allegations related to document forgery, according to information gathered by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
The arraignment, originally scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed due to a high volume of cases before Justice Inyang Ekwo.
Abdulhameed will face charges alongside Babangida Abdullahi in a 10-count charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/555/2023, dated and filed on November 28, 2023.
According to the charge signed by CSP Celestine Odo, Legal/Prosecution Section of the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters, the defendants, along with others at large, are accused of conspiring to commit forgery around October 23, 2023.
In count two of the charge, the defendants are alleged to have conspired to commit an offence on the same date.
These alleged offences contravene Section 3(6) and are punishable under Section 1(2)(c) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act, Cap. M17, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2010.
NAN recalls that former President Muhammadu Buhari dismissed Abdulhameed on Dec. 1, 2022, following allegations of corruption related to agricultural loans.
NIRSAL, a $500 million non-bank financial institution, was created by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to manage agribusiness-related credit risks in Nigeria.
