Men of Ogun police command said it had arrested a 47 year old man, Balogun Ayodele for impersonating to be a lawyer.
Mr Abimbola Oyeyemi , the State Police Public Relations Officer, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abeokuta on Thursday.
According to Oyeyemi, trouble started when the suspect appeared as a defence counsel for somebody standing trial in a magistrate court at Ilaro.
“His 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.
“The magistrate subsequently invited the Police from Ilaro area Command to arrest and investigate him.
” On interrogation, he confessed that he is never a lawyer and that he has been going to court under pretence of been a legal practitioner for quite sometime now.
“While the investigation was going on, a prison warden came to identify him as an ex-convict who just finished serving a six months jail term on a similar offence,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police, Cp Bashir Makama, has ordered that the suspect be arraigned before a court of competent jurisdiction as soon as the investigation is concluded.
Makama also warned that Ogun State would not be conducive to anybody who choose crime as a way of life.
