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A Lagos Magistrate Court has remanded three men in prison for impersonating INEC workers and recruiting ad-hoc staff. <\/p>\n

The suspects,Kaiyewu Folahan, Akintunde Ibukun and Azeez Kazeem were caught in the act on Wednesday by the operatives and were immediately apprehended.<\/p>\n

The suspects were today arraigned accordingly at the Chief Magistrate’s Court 2, Yaba, for conspiracy, impersonation, forgery, fraudulent act and unlawful possession of INEC materials. <\/p>\n

They have been remanded in prison pending when they would perfect their bail conditions and the case was adjourned till April 16, 2019.<\/p>\n

Their arrest and trial followed a complaint earlier in the day from the Deputy Director of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the Shomolu Local Government Area, Mrs Akinwunmi S.O.<\/p>

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She had alerted the police that some persons at Shop no.33, Aluta Plaza, Federal College of Education, Akoka, Yaba were carrying out the illegal acts.<\/p>\n

This led the state Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, to direct the Pedro Police Station DPO to infiltrate the camp of the culprits with his undercover operatives,according to a statement made available to National Wire.<\/p>\n

Exhibits recovered from them include a laptop and 511 INEC Lagos Ad-hoc Recruitment Forms already filled with passport photographs affixed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Lagos Magistrate Court has remanded three men in prison for impersonating INEC workers and recruiting ad-hoc staff. The suspects,Kaiyewu Folahan, Akintunde Ibukun and Azeez Kazeem were caught in the act on Wednesday by the operatives and were immediately apprehended. 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