The Osun police command has announced the arrest of a middle aged-man, Adebowale Babatunde, for allegedly impersonating a legal practitioner in the State.

Babatunde was said to have appeared before a Magistrate’s Court in Osogbo dressed up in a shirt, tie and suit.

Trouble, however, started when he was unable to move a motion appropriately in suit number MOS/M.95/2021, before Magistrate Adeyeba Adekanmi on Wednesday.

The attitude of the suspect, who claimed to be practising at Oyewale & Co, Osogbo, while addressing the court made Magistrate Adeyeba and other lawyers in court to ask him questions in legal practice which he was unable to answer.

Babatunde claimed to have attended the Law School in Lagos and was called to bar in 2015, but could not mention names of two of his lecturers when asked.

Consequently, a warrant of arrest was issued against him right inside the courtroom and he was arrested by the Police.

Speaking, Babatunde claimed that his brother was the owner of Oyewale & Co Chamber, adding that he was not aware of his presence in court.

He claimed to have been approached by the mother of the respondents in the case to represent them in court.

According to him, he was appearing for the first time. It was gathered that Babatunde collected a sum of N10,000 from the applicants to appear before the court.

He was then arrested and taken to the State Criminal Investigation Department in Osogbo for further interrogation.