One Ikechukwu Igwegbe Ilodinru of Onneh village in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State has been arrested by the state police command for impersonating as a deceased person’s son with the aim of claiming his estates and bank deposits.
THE WHISTLER gathered that the suspect was arrested on 17/8/2020, at about 5:pm, by police operatives attached to B’ Division, Awka.
According to the police public relations officer of the state police command, SP Haruna Mohammed, “The suspect approached the probate registry of the state high court, Awka, and started processing a letter of administration in respect of a deceased person, namely the late Okafor Osuokwu Anthony, and presented himself as the deceased’s first and only son in order to obtain the document which would have given him access to the deceased’s property, estates and bank deposits.”
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The PPRO said preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect equally swore to an oath under false pretence that he was the deceased’s biological son.
Mohammed added that, “The suspect also obtained a forged death certificate allegedly from the National Population Commission stating that the deceased, whose actual death took place on 27th of July 2020, occurred on the 23rd of July 2020. He quickly rushed to Union Bank to withdraw the deceased’s deposit, but was advised to get a letter of administration.”
It was gathered that the suspect, who voluntarily confessed to the crime, was a tenant in the deceased’s house at Igboukwu, and impersonated the deceased’s first son who lives in Zaria, Kaduna State.
Exhibits recovered from him were an alleged forged dead certificate of the deceased, false sworn declaration as the deceased’s next-of-kin, and a sworn affidavit in the High Court, Awka.