By our reporter| The police on Wednesday arrainged former governor of Imo state, Ikedi Ohakim, before a federal capital territory (FCT) high court on a three-count charge bordering on criminal defamation.
According to the police in the three count charge, Ohakim in May 2019, allegedly “gave false information against one Chinyere Amuchienwa that she threatened you with gun knowing it to be false and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 140 of the Penal Code Laws of the Northern Nigeria.”
“That you Ikedi Ohakim, on or about the 23rd day of May 2019, at Asokoro, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court did unlawfully gave false information against one Chinyere Amuchienwa, that you have a plot of land for sale at Lagos state, knowing it to be false…,” count two of the charge read.
He was also accused of unlawfully using the name of Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, as the owner of the purported land situated at Ikeja, Lagos state.
Ohakim, however, pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Presiding judge,Samira Bature, granted the former governor a N10 million bail and one surety in like sum.
According to her, the surety must be a reputable member of the society and must be resident of the FCT.
She adjourned to January 25, 2021, for the commencement of trial and warned the defendant against inference with the prosecution of the case, failure of which she said, could lead to revocation of the bail.
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