How a visa applicant was arrested at American Embassy Abuja with Fake ID Card
An officer of the Department of State Service, Mr Franklin Akinbade, on Monday, told an FCT High Court, Kubwa, how a suspect, Olumide Akinola, falsified documents which he presented at the American Embassy. Akinbade, led in evidence by the prosecuting counsel, Mr Oremosele Collins, told the court that the suspect introduced himself and four others as staff of the National Identity Management Commission. According to him, the defendant told him during investigation that sometimes in 2013, one Lawrence and Chidi, now at large, met the defendant to help them secure visas for their clients, which he declined. "He told me that they came back in 2015 asking to sponsor him (the defendant) to a Global Summit holding in America, which was in line with his profession as a protocol officer if he would assist his friends too. "Thereafter, he obtained a letter from the Ministry of External Affairs, introducing himself and four others as officers of NIMC. "He also told me th