EFCC Arraigns Former MTN Staff for Forgery. Photo

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday 1, February 2016 arraigned one Prince Spencer Adikibi, before Justice U.N. Agomoh of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt on a 2 count charge bordering on forgery. ....


The complainant, MTN Nigeria Communications Limited alleged that sometimes in 2008 the defendant, a former staff of MTN, a Based Transceiver Station (BTS) land acquisition officer in Port Harcourt allegedly forged and signed a renewal of Tenancy Mast Space Document to one Allwell Onyeotito, the landlord of the said property where MTN Mast was erected.

According to investigation, the lease was meant for 10 years which was paid for by MTN but the defendant in a bid to defraud the complainant, forged and utter the company’s documents, thereby shortening the period of the contract to Five Years and diverted the balance of the funds for his personal use.