Man who uses his wife’s gown to impersonate lawyers gets 3 year jail sentence

Omotola Ayokanmi, a 47-year-old man who unlawfully offered himself as a authorized practitioner at a federal excessive courtroom in Abeokuta on July 16, has been sentenced to a few years in jail for impersonation.

Ayokanmi was accused of showing earlier than the federal excessive courtroom as a counsel to maneuver an utility for bail.

Fortune Akhenegor, a police inspector and the prosecution counsel stated;

“The choose discovered fault in his deal with to the courtroom which made the choose interrogate him.

“He later confessed that he solely had a diploma in regulation and had by no means been referred to as to the bar. He confessed that he had been utilizing his spouse‘s robe who was referred to as to bar in 2006, however not practising. The defendant has been practising since 2007.”

Akhenegor stated the offence contravened part 484 of the felony legal guidelines of Ogun, 2006.

Ayokanmi who pleaded responsible to the fees was sentenced to a few years in jail with out an possibility of high-quality by Folake Ogundele, the presiding Justice of the Peace.