Admin l Monday, October 11, 2021
LAGOS, Nigeria – A Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos today sentenced a 40 old level seven civil servant to one year for forgery.
The woman in question, who pleaded guilty, forged a document claiming to be a Level 14 civil servant in an attempt to stand surety for a suspect in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC.
Odutola Sherifat Oyinkansola having pleaded guilty to the nine count information dated 26th of April 2021 before the court upon arraignment. While delivering judgment, Justice Sherifat Solebo sentenced the defendant to a one year prison term.
Prosecuting counsel for the commission S.O Daji informed the honorable court that the defendant forged a document purporting herself to be one Rasaki Wasiu Adeyiga a level 14 civil servant working at Massey Street Children’s Hospital while she was just a level 7 civil servant
According to the charge sheet, “Odutola Sherifat Oyinkansola on about the 29th day of March 2021, at Lagos within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court forged a document titled “Letter of Introduction Miss. Odutola Sherifat Oyinkansola – Principal Data Proc.
Officer GL: 14 with Reference number MSCH/112/VOL.II/302 purportedly issued by Massey Street Children’s Hospital which you submitted to the officers of Economic and Financial Crime Commission to secure the ball of one Rasaki Wasiu Adeyiga”.
