Abuja court convicts uninterested, absent native doctor over N2.5m fraud
The court has strangely sentenced a man found guilty of fraud to prison with his whereabouts unknown.
Justice Mohammed of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Jabi, Abuja, on Monday (today), convicted one Bala Tangalu, a self styled native doctor, on the two counts of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence brought against him by the EFCC.
Tangalu was arrested and charged to court in February 2017, following a petition by one Dozie Ugonna that he and his cohorts defrauded him of N2.5 million sum.
Ugonna said the money was meant for Tangalu to purchase materials to neutralize some harmful charms purportedly contained in a carton filled with US dollars.
The judge, who found an absent Tangalu guilty of the crime, said: “the suspect is hereby convicted on the two counts of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence. He will be sentenced whenever he surrenders himself to the court or he has been arrested.”
Tangalu and his counsel were said to have in the course of trial abandoned the case, following several adjournments, forcing the court to order the trial to continue in his absence.
