Police arrest 10 over alleged certificate, document forgery in Oyo

The Oyo State Police Command has arrested 10 individuals suspected of specialising successful the forgery of authoritative documents, stamps, and certificates belonging to authorities agencies, backstage organisations, and fiscal institutions.

The suspects were apprehended successful a coordinated cognition by the Command Monitoring Unit astatine a hideout located successful the Ogunpa country of Ibadan.

Confirming the arrest, the Police Public Relations Officer, Ayanlade Olayinka, said the cognition followed sustained quality gathering and assemblage cooperation.

“On April 9, actionable quality was received indicating that a radical of individuals specialising successful the forgery of authoritative documents, stamps, and certificates of assorted authorities and backstage organisations was operating from a hideout wrong the Ogunpa country of Ibadan,” Olayinka said.

He explained that operatives instantly launched a coordinated raid which led to the apprehension of the suspects identified arsenic Mumini Akanbi (62), Quadri Muhammed (31), Salami Tajudeen (50), Oladipupo Hammed (45), Oladipupo Taiwo (40), Olorun Sebi Kazem (42), Fatai Akanni (54), Alamu Kazeem (60), Olalekan Afeez (42), and Alex Olanrewaju (64).

The constabulary spokesperson added that hunt warrants were executed astatine the suspects’ operational bases, wherever respective incriminating items were recovered. These see a fake Police Character Certifica...