Judiciary

Court Jails Fake Lawyer in Lagos

The Lagos Zonal Command of the EFCC on March 23, 2022 secured the conviction of one Emmanuel Adekeye Adekola before Justice Sherifat Solebo of a Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos for offence bordering on impersonation.

Operatives of the EFCC had on January 11, 2022 arrested him when he came to the Lagos Command of the Commission posing as a lawyer to secure the bail of a suspected fraudster who was in the Commission’s custody.

Nemesis caught up with him, when investigators dug in further to verify the documents he tendered to secure the bail..

In a related development, Justice Abdu Dogo of the Federal High Court, sitting in Makurdi, Benue State has convicted and sentenced Felicia Daniel to one year imprisonment for fraudulent acquisition of funds.

Daniel was convicted on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 after pleading “guilty” to one- count charge bordering on fraudulent acquisition of funds in the sum of N1,225, 000( One Million Two Hundred and Twenty Five Thousand Naira only).

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