Joy Anyim
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 47-yrea-old man, Balogun Ayodele, for impersonating a lawyer.
Ayodele, an ex-convict was arrested April 2, 2019, after he had appeared as a counsel for someone standing trail at Magistrate court, Ilaro.
Spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the arrest of the suspect. Oyeyemi said Ayodele’s appearance and presentation aroused the suspicion of the magistrate who threw several legal questions at him but he was unable to answer any of the questions.
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“The magistrate subsequently invited the Police from Ilaro Area Command to arrest and investigate the suspect. Upon interrogation, he confessed that he was never a lawyer and that he has been going to court under pretence of being a legal practitioner for quite some time now.
“While the investigation was going on, a prison warden came to identify Ayodele as an ex-convict who just finished serving a six months jail term on a similar offence.”
Oyeyemi said the Commissioner of Police, CP Bashir Makama, had ordered that the suspect be arraigned before a court of competent jurisdiction as soon as the investigation is concluded.
He stated that CP Makama had also warned that Ogun State would not be conducive to anybody who choose crime as a way of life.
