A lawyer, Barrister Victor Giwa has asked a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Apo Resettlement, to dismiss a charge brought against him by the Nigeria Police, over allegation of forgery.
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According to Giwa, up till the time he was arraigned before the court, he had not been personally served with a copy of the charge in compliance with the provisions of the, law.
Giwa was charged before the court alongside one other, Bukola Ibitade, by the Nigeria Police.
In the motion challenging the jurisdiction of the court, Giwa said the court has no power to try him on the charge brought against him by the Nigeria Police.
He urged the court to decline jurisdiction.
During the proceedings Thursday, Counsel to Giwa, Mr Farooq: Akanbi, from Dr. Ahmed Raji, SAN, Chamber, argued, “We are praying the court to dismiss this charge for lack of jurisdiction because upt till now, the 1st defendant (Giwa) has not been personally served with a copy of the charge amd notice of trial and other accompanying processes”
He urged the court to grant the motion challenging the jurisdiction of the court and dismiss the charge.
He also said the counter-affidavit of the prosecution against the motion of the defendant was an unsigned document.
According to , “It is an unsworn document. It wasn’t sworn to before a Commissioner of Oath and thereby, making it incompetent amd should be discountenance.
“It is just a, piece of paper with no legal backing. As it stands, the averment in the 1st defendant motion in in untroverted”.
He asked the court to strike, out the jarge for lack of jurisdiction, adding that the condition precedent was not followed before fing the charge.
Police Prosecution, Theophilous Silas, I’m his response asked the court to dismiss the motion of the defendant and proceed with the case.
He urged the court to refuse the motion.
The police had accused Giwa of forging letterhead paper of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Awa Kalu.
But Awa Kalu, in a letter to the Inspector General of Police, Mr Kayode. Egebtolun, put a lie to the allegation of the police against Ibitade amd Giwa.
A staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Asabe Waziri, is the nominal complainant in the matter.
The police disregarded the letter of the SAN to the Inspector-General of Police and acted of the complaints by Waziri.
Despite the letter of Prof. Awa Kalu to the Inspector-General of Police, formally distancing himself from the allegation of forgery and impersonation against Giwa and Ibitade, the police have gone ahead to press charge against Giwa.
Chief Kalu, in a letter to the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Kayode Egbetokun, had said his letterhead was never forged and that he had not at anytime lodged any complaint to the police about forgery of his document.
Professor Kalu, in a letter dated May 30, 2025, addressed to the Inspector General of Police, clarified that he neither filed a complaint nor reported Mr. Giwa for allegedly forging his firm’s letterhead
The trial judge, Justice Jude Onwuegbuzie, adjourned the case till February 17′, 2026 for the argument of other pending motions
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