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LAWYER ACCUSED OF FORGING DEAD WOMAN’S PROPERTY DOCUMENTS

A Federal High Court, Ikeja on Friday fixed October 5 to rule on a no case submission filed by a legal practitioner, Kole Bello who is standing trial for allegedly forging a Certificate of Occupancy (CofO) of landed property in Lekki. Bello who is standing trial alongside three others was expected to open his defense in the forgery case but he filed an application asking the court to drop all the charges against him. Bello was arraigned before the court alongside Chukwu Victor, Friday Palmer and Osumah Terry sometimes in October 2017, by the Lagos State Government on a three-count charge bordering on conspiracy, fraud and forgery. According to the charge, the defendants allegedly conspired among themselves and forged a C of O with reference no. 63/63/1989, dated Sept. 28, 1989. The defendants allegedly forged C of O in order to take over a plot of land belonging to late Mrs Francisca Awolaja. However, at Friday’s proceedings, Bello’s counsel, Oke Akintunde (SAN), i