Octogenarian got with counterfeit dollars in Katsin

A 81-year-old man, Abdurrahman Amadu of Fora Village in the Kafur Local Government Area of Katsina State has been blamed for being in control of fake United States dollars prompting his arraignment before a Katsina Senior Magistrates' Court.

Amadu, who was summoned alongside one Usman Yahaya, 49, on September 20, is charged to show up in court on Wednesday (today).

The two litigants were accused of the offenses of criminal connivance and being in control of cash suspected to be fake.

As per the police First Information Report, Amadu's inconveniences begun on September when two men, specifically, Alhaji Abdul Kadiri, 50, and Adamu Amadu, 40, of Dayi Village in the Malumfashi Local Government Area of the state, held up a grumbling against him with the police.

The complainants allegedly said that the charged bamboozled them that he had located their stolen steers some place in Kaduna and that he would help them to recoup the creatures in the event that they paid him a specific sum.

The police included that Amadu was along these lines followed and captured.

The court heard that when a body look was directed on Amadu, 34 counterfeit $100 notes suspected to be fake were recuperated from him.

The police guaranteed that Amadu admitted amid cross examination that he was given 41 $100 notes by Yahaya, a.k.a. Damaske of Farin Yaro Quarters, Katsina who is said to be a Bureau de Change administrator.

Yahaya was said to have additionally admitted to the wrongdoing, which the police said was in opposition to Sections 9F of the Penal Code Law and Section 5(a),(b) and (c) of the Counterfeit Currency Special arrangement Act, LFN,2004.

The police prosecutor, Inspector Sani Ado, had told the court that examination concerning the case was in advance inciting the intermission of the case till Wednesday (today) for specify.