The former Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde has been alleged to use false names to forged documents to commit frauds.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, which disclosed this on Wednesday is prosecuting Ojerinde for alleged N5bn fraud.
The ICPC in a statement said the the professor “used several false names, aliases, and forged means of identification such as Akanbi Lamidi, Adeniyi Banji, Habibulahi Lamidi, Joshua Olaniran Olakuleyin, etc to perpetrate his corrupt practices through various bank accounts and still retains the resources and influence to evade justice.”
The commission also kicked against a Federal High Court in Abuja, order to it to pay Ojerinde N1m damages over his re-arrest on January 26 on the court premises.
Justice Obiora Egwuatu, ruling on a fundamental rights suit filed by Ojerinde, had said the re-arrest and continued detention of the JAMB Registrar was illegal, adding that the ICPC violated Ojerinde’s right to personal liberty.
Justice Egwuatu directed the commission to pay Ojerinde addition N200,000 as the cost of instituting the lawsuit.
But in a statement on Wednesday by its spokesperson, The ICPC spokesperson Azuka Ogugua, said the commission has rejected the ruling, saying it was going to challenge it at the Court of Appeal.
The ICPC said the former Registrar’s re-arrest was informed by a warrant issued by the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court.
“The ICPC expressed its dissatisfaction with the ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja on the civil rights claim filed by the former Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde.
“The commission intends to appeal the ruling of the court. The anti-corruption agency has a valid warrant issued by the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court dated December 6, 2022,” it read.
