BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME
PORT HARCOURT — A Federal
High Court in Port Harcourt,
Rivers State, has granted the
former presidential candidate of
Hope Democratic Party, Chief
Ambrose Owuru bail in the sum
of N10 million.
Trial judge, Justice Suleiman Aliyu,
in his ruling, yesterday, ordered
that Owuru should produce a
surety, who should be a legal
practitioner and must have been
in practice for a minimum of 20
years.
The case was adjourned till
October 10 for further hearing.
It will be recalled that Chief
Owuru was charged to court on
August 2, by Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC, on a five count charge of
forgery and obtaining money by
false pretence. Of which he
pleaded not guilty. to the
charges.
Two of the counts reads: “That
you, Ambrose Owuru on or
about March 7, 2011 at Port
Harcourt, Rivers State, within the
jurisdiction of this court, with
intent to defraud did obtain the
sum of N60 million from
Ikechukwu Eze on the pretence
that you have sold to him four
plots of land situated at Plot 44A,
Amadi Layout- Port Harcourt a
pretext which you knew to be
false and thereby committed an
offence contrary to section 1(1)
(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and
Other Fraud Related Offences
Act, 2006 and punishable under
section 1(3) of the same Act.
“That you, Ambrose Owuru, on
March 7, 2011 at Port Harcourt,
Rivers State, within the
jurisdiction of this court, did
utter a forged “Certificate