The senator representing Bayelsa Central Senatorial District, Konbowei Benson, was arraigned before the FCT High Court in Abuja on Tuesday for allegedly forging exemption certificate of the
In the suit marked: CR/028/2023, the IGP specifically accused the senator of forging a document titled 'Certificate of Exemption' with number 000256454 and dated 4 July 2008. The senator's counsel, Gordy Uche, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria , told the court on that day that his client was"medically indisposed" and submitted a medical report to substantiate his claim.
Other charges are"That you, Benson Friday Konbowei, sometime in March 2014 within the jurisdiction of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory fraudulently used as genuine a certain document to wit: Certificate of Exemption Number 000256454 dated 4th of July 2008 signed by the Director-General, NYSC, Directorate Headquarters, Abuja to the Independent National Electoral Commission to contest election into the Bayelsa State House of Assembly in 2015 election, which you won and...
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)