Oyewunmi (Mrs.), today ordered the police to investigate the educational certificates of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Alhaji Abdullahi Inde Dikko, and report to the court as soon as possible.
The order arose from the criminal complaint brought before the court against Abdullahi Dikko Inde by Olajide Oyewole Ibrahim and activist lawyer, Festus Keyamo . Saharareporters broke the story on 2 September 2009 about an affidavit sworn to by Olajide at the Lagos High Court that the new Customs boss has been posing and rising professionally on the strength of forged educational credentials.

While Alhaji Dikko--who is a close relative of PDP-installed president, Umaru Yar'Adua and his wife, Turai--has not bothered to deny the story, he is known to have taken desperate measures to suppress the scandal, including the attempted confiscation and burning of an entire edition of a newspaper in Abuja.

Similarly, there are suspicions he may be implicated in the assassination of an editor at The Guardian, Bayo Ohu, on September 20. He was said to have been investigating the same story when he was killed in his home. His killers took nothing but his laptop computer and mobile phone. Over a month after the killing, the police claim to have no suspects.

It will be interesting to see if the same police can execute Magistrate Oyewunmi's order with professional honour and with despatch. Last month, it took Saharareporters only hours to cross-check some of Dikko’s claims to graduate study.

During our investigation, we could find no evidence of a "University of Dimitrov Apostle Tshenov, Suishtov – Bulgaria," which he claims in his curriculum vitae, although there is a ". A. Tsenov Academy of Economics.” It took months to confirm if Dikko may have studied at the D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics a school he simply forgot, in his CV, what it is called.

And if the police can quickly complete their investigation and report promptly to Magistrate Oyewunmi, it would be even more interesting to see, in view of the political connections of the Customs boss, whether it will see the light of day since press reports already claimed a highly powered but secretive panel had already "cleared" Mr.Dikko.

Alhaji Dikko was appointed Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs last July.

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Moderators wat was wrong with my earlier post on this topic. Pls stop deleting post here abeg.

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kudos to the courts

@moderators:pls stop deleting

Seriously. Not including a source deters people from commenting.

No reader needs to take pains to verify stories.
http://www.saharareporters.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4040:-certificate-forgery-scandal-latest-court-orders-police-to-investigate-customs-boss-abdullahi-dikko-report-asap&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=18

It's a shame Bayo Ohu has been assasinated (allegedly) because he was doing a story on this topic,his story would've assisted the police in their investigation

But why the police,those are the most easily compromised officers in this country,and when you mix customs and police together,you have a very smelly pot of corruption soup