Again, Fake Lawyer Nabbed At Ojo Magistrate Court

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

The police have again arrested a man who had been parading himself as a legal practitioner without basic education and training as lawyer in Lagos.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that undercover operatives of Lagos State Police Command attached to Ojo Police Station, on 25th May, 2018, arrested one Mr. Uche Julian Nwajiakwu for impersonating as a lawyer and holding briefs for litigants in various courts.

That was the second time a fake lawyer will be nabbed at Ojo Magistrate Court.
The first was the arrest of one Chris Elisha who was arrested on 6th of February, 2018, after being in illegal  practise for fifteen years. Mr. Elisha has since been arraigned before Ikeja Magistrate court where he was facing trial. Mr. Uche Julian Nwajiakwu, the latest man to be arrested for illegal law practice had been on the game since 2015.

According to the suspect, he fell in love with the law profession when a friend of his commissioned him to act as a lawyer in order to serve his tenant a quit notice. He was handsomely rewarded after the deed and since then there was no looking back.

However, luck ran out on Julian Nwajiakwu on 25th May, 2018, while he was arguing on a bail application for his client when intelligent lawyers in the court suspected that he was laid back. The lawyers said that his quackery was too obvious to be  ignored.

The police investigation into the case thus far revealed that the suspect did not study law in any of the Nigerian universities nor anywhere else  in the world. He was brought before Ojo Magistrates Court on the 30th of May, 2018, for impersonation.

In view of this incident, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, reiterated his warning to professional bodies to properly scrutinise people professing to be members of their body.

According to the CP, this is one incident too many and must be checked. CP Edgal noted that the Command had in the recent months arrested fake medical doctors and other spurious health workers including fake journalists.