Olayomi Adegbite
Current news report has shown how luck ran out on one Olayomi
Adegbite, who allegedly paraded himself as a lawyer at a Lagos
magistrate’s court in Ogba.
According to report it was learnt that the 34-year-old had appeared as a counsel,
applying for the bail of a defendant arraigned in court for stealing.
Fresh news gathered reports that as Adegbite made the bail application, a
presiding magistrate of Court 5 where the defendant was arraigned
observed flaws in his presentation.
It is reported that the magistrate, Mrs. Temitope Oladele, who is on induction under
Chief Magistrate O.J. Awope, was said to have invited him to her office
for questioning upon which it was discovered that he was never called to
the bar.
Information aching us revealed that A lawyer at the court, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said he
had warned Adegbite on several occasions of the consequences of his
action, but he refused.
“He started coming to the court in December. He would dress as a
lawyer and walk around to assist defendants to perfect their bails. He
was working with a lawyer. I approached him to stop parading himself as a
lawyer, but he was furious with me.
“On February 24, 2017, he appeared at Court 5 to hold brief for
the lawyer in a case of stealing. When the magistrate noticed that he
could not apply for the defendant’s bail, she summoned him to her
chambers,” he said.
He was subsequently arrested by policemen from the Ikeja division
and brought to Court 4 on Thursday by a police prosecutor, Sergeant
Raphael Donny, on one count of impersonation.
The charge read, “That you, Olayomi Adegbite, on February 24,
2017, at about 12pm, at Court 5, Ogba, in the Ikeja Magisterial
District, did impersonate a member of the Nigerian Bar Association
without having a certificate to prove yourself, thereby committing an
offence punishable under Section 78 (b) of the Criminal Law, No 11, Vol.
44, Law of Lagos State, 2011.”
The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge.
The presiding magistrate, Mrs. Davies Abegunde, consequently
sentenced him to 100 hours of community service across magistrates’
courts in Lagos, except Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry magistrates’ courts.
The magistrate added that he should place placards with inscriptions, ‘I am a fake lawyer,’ on his front and back while cleaning the courts.
As Adegbite was serving the punishment on Friday at Ogba Court, he
was heard telling some court officials that he knew those behind his
“ordeal.”
When approached for comment on the incident, he said, “I have nothing to say now.”
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