The Osun State Command of the NSCDC arrested 25-year-old Ayanrinde Abdulgafar, who falsified his identity as a lawyer and defrauded unwitting citizens.
According to the state Commandant, Agboola Sunday, who paraded the suspect at the Command’s headquarters in Oke Ayepe, Osogbo, on Saturday, May 27, 2023, Ayarinde had allegedly dwindled POS agents inside court buildings in a number of states while always being fully dressed as a lawyer.
The Federal High Court, Akure, and the State High Courts in Osogbo and Ilorin were key locations where Abdulgafar allegedly committed the crime.
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Adigun said that the suspect was detained on May 25, 2023, in Ilorin, Kwara State by the Command crack team working alongside Kwara State NSCDC.
He defrauded a POS agent and two drivers
His words:
“The suspect presented himself as a Barrister of law to one driver on the 23rd May, 2023 whose service he requested to drive him first to State High Court Osogbo before heading to Federal High Court, Akure.
“The suspect in his full regalia entered the court, exchange pleasantries with lawyers and thereafter approached a POS woman around the court premises and collected the sum of One hundred and fifty thousand naira with the aim to do the transfer.
“He had collected the phone of the driver to share his internet facility to help him transfer the money. He entered the court premises and disappeared into the thin air, only to be tracked to Ilorin, Kwara State.
“The suspected fake lawyer defrauded another driver who took him to Ilorin to the sum of N100,000, after which he was arrested.”
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Ayanrinde tells his story
When he was asked what led him to such a crime, Ayanrinde said he did it to spite his father who abandoned him since he was a child.
“I dropped out of the University of Ibadan (UI) from the law department in 2022 when I could no longer pay school fees.
“I decided to start practising as a fake lawyer to swindle people in courts because my father who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) decided to neglect myself and my mother after he impregnated her.
“I do this crime to spite him. I regret my action, my father is the one that destroys my life. He denied me as his son and never took responsibility for me,” he said.
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Nigerian lawyer advises married women to stop begging for money from their ex
Meanwhile, a Nigerian lawyer and activist expressed her belief that it is wrong for married women to ask their ex-boyfriends for money.
She argued that doing so is disrespectful to their spouse and advised those who engage in the practice to stop immediately in order to preserve their marriage.
The lawyer also suggested that such requests could lead to temptations or strange demands from the lender and may potentially open the door to adultery.
