Surety bags 1-year jail term

Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Ikeja Special Offences Court has convicted and sentenced a woman, Odutola Sherifat Oyinkansola, who claimed to be a level 14 civil servant to one-year imprisonment for forgery and impersonation. Odutola ran into trouble with the law in her attempt to stand surety for a suspect in the custody of the […]

Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Ikeja Special Offences Court has convicted and sentenced a woman, Odutola Sherifat Oyinkansola, who claimed to be a level 14 civil servant to one-year imprisonment for forgery and impersonation.

Odutola ran into trouble with the law in her attempt to stand surety for a suspect in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

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She forged documents claiming to be a level 14 civil servant.

She had pleaded guilty to a nine-count charge before the court upon arraignment.

Earlier, the prosecuting counsel of the commission, S.O Daji, informed the court that the defendant forged a document purporting herself to be one Rasaki Wasiu Adeyiga, a level 14 civil servant working at Massey Street Children’s Hospital, meanwhile she was a level 7 civil servant.

According to the charge sheet: “Odutola Sherifat Oyinkansola on about the 29th day of March 2021, at Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court forged a document titled “Letter of Introduction Miss.

“Odutola Sherifat Oyinkansola – Principal Data Proc. Officer GL: 14 with Reference number MSCH/112/VOL.II/302 purportedly issued by Massey Street Children’s Hospital which you submitted to the officers of Economic and Financial Crime Commission to secure the ball of one Rasaki Wasiu Adeyiga”.

From Bolaji Robert, Lagos