Alhaji Fagbemi Waheed, a contestant to the vacant stool of Oba of Iwoye town via Ilaro has been arrested for forging a WAEC certificate.
The suspect was arrested following a pettition received from the chamber of one R.R.A & Associate in which he was accused of forging a WAEC certificate number NGSG 809573 which he claimed to have obtained in 1988.
According to a press release by the police public relations officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi it stated that the petitioner further stated that the the suspect forged the said certificate for the purpose of using it to contest for the throne of Oluwoye of Iwoye town.
On the strenght of the petition, the officer in-charge Anti-kidnapping section was detailed to investigate the case, consequent upon which the suspect was arrested and search warrant was executed in his house where the forged certificate was recovered.
Investigation further revealed that the WEAC certificate bearing the above number actually belong to one Riamot Omotola Adebayo.
Oyeyemi in the press release said that on interrogation, the suspect confessed that he collected the certiticate from the owner on the pretence that he want to use it to secure job for her but took it to a cybercafe where he super imposed his own name on it and printed it out as original. He stated further that he did so because he wanted to contest for the Obaship position of his town .
The Commissioner of police, CP Kenneth Ebrinson has directed that the suspect be charged to court as soon as investigation is concluded.
