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Efe Omorogbe, Chief executive Officer of Now Muzik Ltd, was on Thursday brought before an Igbosere magistrates’ court, Lagos, for purportedly forging the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) letterhead.
The showbiz entrepreneur also doubles as the manager of pop star, Innocent ‘2face’ Idibia.
Omoregbe was prosecuted alongside Joel Ajayi, 61, before O O Oshin by the zone II police command headquarters, Obalende.
Ajayi is named on the COSON website as a member of board of directors and “the managing director, Gospel Choral Records Ltd.”
According to reports the duo are standing trial on a three-count charge of forgery, use of false document and breach of peace.
The prosecutor,Friday Mameh, told the law court that Omorogbe, Ajayi and others still at large committed the offences on December 7, 2017 at 41, Oluwaleyimu St., Ikeja.
Mameh noted that the accused supposedly forged COSON’s letterhead “with intent that it may be acted upon or used as genuine to the prejudice of COSON.
“The accused also conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause a breach of peace by storming the meeting venue of Chief Tony Okoroji with thugs and disrupted the proceedings”.
He told the court that the felonies contravened sections 168 (d), 363 and 376 of the criminal law of Lagos state, 2015.
Omorogbe and Ajayi, however, pleaded not guilty.
Counsel to the accused persons, S Ehiwelele and Chibuzor Nwankobi, urged the court to admit them to bails on liberal terms.
Ruling on their bail applications, Magistrate Oshin granted each accused person N250,000 bail with one surety each in like sum.
He said each surety must have a sustainable means of livelihood with an evidence of tax payment to the Lagos state government.
The case was adjourned until May 17 for mention