With the nullification of APC candidature of David Lyon and Senator Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo (Deputy-Governor elect) on greound od certificate forgery of the latter, the obvious thing to have done by IGP is to immediately arrest Senator Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo for forgery and fraud. Both the Criminal and Penal Codes that apply in the southern and northern parts of Nigeria prohibit forgery. Sections 463 of the Criminal Code which provides for three years imprisonment for forgery while sections 362 to 364 of the Penal Code deal with forgery with punishment of up to 14 years.

Section 465 of the Criminal Code Act defines forgery thus:

“A person who makes a false document or writing knowing it to be false ,and with intent that it may in any way be used or acted upon as genuine ,whether in the State or elsewhere, to the prejudice of any person, or with intent that any person may, in the belief that it is genuine, be induced to do or refrain from doing any act, whether in the State or elsewhere, is said to forge the document or writing.

A person who makes a counterfeit seal or mark, or makes an impression of a counterfeit seal knowing the seal to be counterfeit, or makes a counterfeit representation of the impression of the genuine seal, or makes without lawful authority an impression of a genuine seal ,with intent in either case that the thing so made may in any way be used or acted upon as genuine, whether in the State or elsewhere, to the prejudice of any person, or with intent that any person may, in the belief that it is genuine ,be induced to do or refrain from doing any act ,whether in the State or elsewhere, is said to forge the seal or mark.

The term “make a false document or writing “ includes altering a genuine document or writing in any material part, either by erasure, obliteration, removal, or otherwise; and making any material addition to the body of a genuine document or writing; and adding to a genuine document or writing any false date, attestation, seal or other material matter.

It is immaterial in what language a forged document or writing is expressed.

It is immaterial that the forger of anything forged may not have intended that any particular person should use or act upon it, or that any particular person should be prejudiced by it, or be induced to do or refrain from doing any act.

So, what is the police waiting for to arrest and prosecute this fraud! He has been using same certificate up to the Senate Chambers and collecting bogus pay on false pretense and must be in jail.

I remember they couldn't wait to arrest Adeleke