Police Arraign Suspect, Firm For UK Visa Fraud, Marriage Scam

The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, has dragged a suspect, Shitta Waliu Aderibigbe and a firm, Fanzine Educational Consult, before a High Court of Justice of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Jabi, for allegedly giving false information to the British government.

Aderibigbe and the firm were arraigned on a two-count charge. He pleaded not guilty to the charge.

They were said to have been engaged in the visa scam on January 19, 2023.

According to the charge dated April 9, 2024, Aderibigbe was said to have given False Information to the British Embassy that Emmanuel Makinde Opeyemi is married to Dolapo Afussat Yusuf.

The police further stated in the charge that the false information threatened to deport Emmanuel Makinde Opeyemi back to Nigeria.

In the charge sheet obtained by LEADERSHIP, the police said the accused knows that the act is unlawful and thereby committed an offence punishable under section 140 of the Penal Code Act, CAP 98 Law of Northern Nigeria.

After he pleaded not guilty to the charge, the presiding judge, Justice Ademuyiwa Oyeyipo, granted him bail of N1 million.

He was also said to produce two sureties who must be civil servants and not below level 09 in the civil service.

According to the judge, the sureties must deposit their passport photographs at the court’s registry and must be residents of the FCT.

The two count-charge against the accused persons read, “That you Shitta Waliu Aderibigbe ‘m’, Fanzine Educational Consult of No. 12 Evans Street, Idiroko, Along Ijede Road, Ikorodu, Lagos State, and Miss Dolapo Afussat Yusuf ‘f’ (at large), sometimes in January, 2022 within the jurisdiction of this honourable Court did conspired among yourselves to commit felony to wit: Giving false information to a Public servant, thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 97(1) of the Penal Code Act (1990. CAP 532).

“That you Shitta Wallu Aderibigbe ‘m’, Fanzine Educational Consult of No. 12 Evans Street, Idiroko, Along Ijede Road, Ikorodu, Lagos state, and Miss Dolapo Afussat Yusuf ‘f’ (at large), sometimes in January, 2022 within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did give False Information to the British Embassy, that one Emmanuel Makinde Opeyemi is married to one Dolapo Afussat Yusuf, the information that has threatened the deportation of the said Emmanuel Makinde Opeyemi back to Nigeria, an act you know to be unlawful and thereby

committed an offence punishable under section 140 of the Penal Code Act, CAP 98, Law of Northern Nigeria.