The Kwara State Police Command has arrested a man, Mr. Peter Adogun, for alleged impersonation and use of forged documents. According to the First Information Report(FIR), one Oyetunji reported that the Nigeria Bar Association(NBA) received complaints from some individuals alleging that one Mr. I. T. David, who practised as a legal practitioner in the state was not an authentic lawyer.
The FIR said, “It was further revealed that Adogun practised and appeared in several matters in all levels of Nigerian courts up to the Supreme Court with the adopted name of ‘Bar I.T. David.’ The suspect has also prepared and signed several legal documents and court processes in the same adopted name. In another development, the suspect failed to report back to the police when requested to do so following the administrative bail given to him on November 29, 2016, while investigating the allegation against him.
“However, he was later re-arrested in the attic of his house at about 8am on January 7, 2017, after a prolonged manhunt for him. At the point of his arrest at his residence on ‘F’ Division Police Station Road, Tanke, Ilorin, a complete set of a legal practitioner’s robe which included one set of a lawyer’s gown, wig and beep were seized.
“Other incriminating items relating to his fraudulent practice as a legal practitioner, which include legal books, complementary cards in his adopted name, bundles of cash receipts for his practice, copies of legal processes in various courts prepared and filed by him, and several other incriminating items relating to his fraudulent legal practice, were recovered from him.”
The suspect has been aarraigned before a Magistrate’s Court in Ilorin. When the matter came up on Wednesday at the court presided over by Mrs. I.O. Olawoyin, a Principal Inspector of Prisons from the Mandella Maximum Prison, Ilorin, Mr. Samuel Bobinihi, said the accused was ill and had been taken to a hospital. The matter was adjourned till 16th February 2017 for mention.
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