A Kubwa Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Tuesday remanded a 70-year-old man, Okutepa Abdullahi in police custody, for allegedly using a forged document to draw pension from the Military Pension Board.
Abdullahi is facing charges bordering on cheating and forgery to which he pleaded not guilty.
The Judge, Mohammed Marafa, ordered the remand of the accused in police custody until May 23, the next adjourned date, for hearing.
Earlier, the Prosecutor, Babajide Olanipekun, had told the court that the defendant presented a forged document to draw pension from the military pension board.
He said that the septuagenarian presented a forged discharge certificate as genuine to the pension board on May 17.
The prosecutor said that the offence contravened Sections 366 and 322 of the Penal Code.
