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Fake Lawyer Arrested In Ebonyi

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Ebonyi, State Police Command on Wednesday, November 24, 2021, arrested a man posing as a lawyer.

The lawyer, who claimed to be an authentic legal practitioner, changed the narrative when he was arrested, adding that he was never a lawyer.

A reliable source from the State Command told Vanguard that the suspect was stopped at a checkpoint manned by members of the Car/Sticker team of the Nigerian Bar Association (Abakaliki Branch), at the Union Bank Junction Abakaliki and questioned over who had the car he was driving, which had NBA stickers, on it.

While interrogating him, the source said he speeded off with one of the lawyers.

When trailed and found, Police operatives were said to have arrested him when he was allegedly videoing and taking shots of the taskforce member with his Android phone and threatening to kill him and his members.

Narrating the incident to journalists, the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Abakaliki Branch, Barr Okorie Ogbonna, said the suspect committed a crime by claiming to be a lawyer, while he was not.

He accused the suspect of kidnapping one of his members.

He said: “In our branch or even at the national Secretariat, we a unit that checks and monitors the use of NBA stickers by non lawyers and we work with the federal and states governments to enforce this. And in Abakaliki Branch, we have a committee called the NBA Car/Sticker Committee. This Committee monitors the fraudulent use of NBA stickers, beards, and gowns.

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