Uche Ogar arrested by EFCC for forgery

Uche Ogah

The President of Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited, Mr. Uche Ogah has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday morning,  after he stepped out of the courtroom where a forgery charge filed against him by the Police were withdrawn. 
Ogah was arrested around the Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Tinubu, Lagos Island. Recall that Ogah was declared winner of the last governorship election in Abia State by Justice Okon Abang of a Federal High Court in Abuja on June 27 was. He was then arraigned on June 16 by the Police for alleged forgery.
The Police prosecutor, Henry Obiazi, told the presiding magistrate, Mrs. Kikelomo Ayeye, when the case was called upon that he had the instruction of the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to withdraw the charges against Ogah, his company, Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited and an ex-employee of United Bank for Africa, Deji Somoye.

“I am instructed by the IGP to withdraw this case, as the issue is pending with the SFU,” Obiazi said. The charges were consequently struck out by the court.”

However, as soon as Ogah stepped out of the court room, he was arrested by the waiting EFCC operatives who drove him away in their van.

An EFCC source said the commission had received a petition against Ogah hence, his arrest. He said Ogah was being interrogated. In the suit filed against them, Ogah and his co-defendants  were accused of conspiring with some persons still at large to forge a Memorandum of Understanding between Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited and Mut-Hass Petroleum Limited sometime in March 2011.