The Edo State Police Command on
Friday arraigned a lawmaker in the state House of Assembly, Ugiagbe Dumez,
before the State Criminal Court on allegation of forgery and impersonation.
According to the police, Dumez
and one other person now at large allegedly committed the offence sometime in
2001.
The 45 years old lawmaker was
arraigned before Judge Ohimai Ovbiagele on six counts bordering on forgery and
impersonation.
Dumez was alleged to have
tampered with a document of West African Senior School Certificate marked:
NGWASSCP 1230734 of December 2001 in the name of Ugiagbe Onaiwu Dumez, with
examination No: 5131293070; by altering the original passport on it and
superimposing his passport photograph on it.
The charge also accused Dumez of
conspiring with the other suspect, now at large, to commit impersonation.
Similarly, with the intent to
defraud, Dumez was said to have falsely represented himself to be the person
whose passport photograph appears and wrote the same examination.
According to the charge sheet,
“The offences are punishable under sections 21 (a) and 467 of the Criminal
Code, Cap 48, vol. II, Laws of the Defunct Bendel State of Nigeria, 1976 as
applicable in Edo State.”
However, after the charges were
read, Justice Obviagele, adjourned the case until November 1, 2019 for the
suspect to take his plea.
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