- The suspect was arrested while posing as a lawyer representing a client in a murder case at the Zone 9 Police Headquarters, Umuahia.
In Abia State, one Kenneth Nwuke, a suspected fake lawyer, has been remanded at the Umuahia correctional centre.
A magistrate court sitting in Umuahia remanded him on Friday after he was arrested by the police.
The suspect was arrested while posing as a lawyer representing a client in a murder case at the Zone 9 Police Headquarters, Umuahia.
It is gathered that the suspected fake lawyer claimed that he was handed over a power of attorney by the father of the deceased to represent him in the murder case pending at the Zone 9 Police Headquarters.
Nwuke was arraigned at Magistrate Court 4, in charge number U/449C/2024, Commissioner of Police vs. Kenneth Nwuke.
The Magistrate, Jane Mba, granted the application for a remand order by the police, which was adjourned to August 30, 2024, for a report on compliance.
According to Vanguard, the alleged power of attorney bears the name of a popular law firm in Aba.
Some members of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Aba, who were at the police zonal command, were said to have called the attention of the police to the fake lawyer while he made efforts to negotiate with the parties in the murder case.
The NBA Aba branch, led by its chairman, Charles Onuchukwu Esq, followed up with the matter in court and commended the police for the arrest of the fake lawyer.
He said, “Some of our members were at the zonal police command where the man came, posing as a lawyer to represent a client in a murder case. We alerted the police that he was an impostor. He was arrested.
“Finally today being 17th July 2024, he was arraigned at the Umuahia magistrate Court 4,in charge number U/449C/2024,Commissioner of Police vs Kenneth Nwuke wherein he was remanded at Umuahia correctional centre.”