A senior lawyer of the Borno State branch of the Nigerian Bar association (NBA), Ahmed Mai-Aji, has been jailed by a Maiduguri court for Criminal breach of trust.
The convicted lawyer whose case was first taken before Justice Umar Fadawu by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC and later transferred to the Chief judge Kashim Zannah was later sent to justice Haruna Mshelia who gave Thursday’s conviction.
Ahmed Mai-aji was re-arraigned on a-three count charge before Justice Haruna Mshelia of the High Court Maiduguri, for the offences of Criminal breach of trust and cheating to the tune of Three Million Naira.
The accused person who is a senior lawyer in the bar was entrusted with a land document for the purpose of intervening in a land dispute between the complainant and another party but he dishonestly disposed that person of that plot in violation of the trust the…
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