• Thu. Mar 28th, 2024

Citizen NewsNG

....news at your finger tip

I STUDIED LAW, BUT DIDN’T GRADUATE -Suspected Fake Lawyer Confesses

ByCitizen NewsNG

Jul 2, 2020

Ogun State Police on Tuesday, arrested a man allegedly parading himself as a lawyer.

The suspected fake lawyer, Elijah Ayodeji Ojo, is said to have confessed to the police that he only attended the university, but he did not graduate.

According to a release by the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, Ojo confessed that “though he gained admission to study law at Ekiti State University, he did not finish the course, neither did he go to law school.”

The police spokesman said the suspect “has been parading himself as a legal practitioner for quite some time now and has been using that to swindle several people of huge amounts of money.”

We learned that the self-acclaimed lawyer was arrested following a petition written to the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Ajuwon police station by a legal practitioner.

“The complainant had reported that Ojo used to parade himself as a lawyer, thereby extorting money from unsuspecting members of the public, despite the fact that he had never been to law school anywhere.

“Upon the petition, the DPO Ajuwon division, SP Andrew Akinseye, and his team of detectives embarked on a painstaking intelligence investigation about the self-acclaimed lawyer.

“In the process of their investigation, they came across a woman who was charged to court for an offence, but was duped by the suspect, who collected about N300,000 from her to perfect her bail condition, but never showed up in the court.

“The suspect was subsequently arrested after much evidence had been gathered against him.

“On interrogation, he confessed that though he gained admission to study law at Ekiti State University but did not finish the course or went to law school,” Oyeyemi confirmed.

Meanwhile, the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Kenneth Ebrimson, has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the State CIID for further investigation and prosecution.

SHARE ON

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Solverwp- WordPress Theme and Plugin