9 members of Ekiti State House of Assembly to face trial over certificate forgery

There has been a report on certificates alleged to be forged by nine members of Ekiti State House of Assembly. These certificates were submitted by the lawmakers to the INEC  for screening during the last general election.

Due to myriad of petitions sent to Department of State Services and Police by aggrieved ruling members of PDP and APC, the agency decided to take an intensive investigation into credentials of the lawmakers.
The DSS investigated the schools allegedly claimed to have been attended by the lawmakers and their former places of work.
A source who spoke with punch said the files of the affected lawmakers had been sent to the office of the Attorney General of the Federation for prosecution. The source added, 

“We have investigated the academic credentials of the lawmakers based on petitions sent to us by the politicians in the state.“The petitions were based on alleged false declaration of academic qualifications and alleged age falsification in the papers presented to the INEC.“We have been able to know that petitions against nine members of the State House of Assembly are genuine.“We have already presented our report and we are expecting the office of the AGF to study it and prepare the charges against the suspects.” 

Apart from the lawmakers, it was also gathered that the security agencies were planning to reopen the murder cases of three prominent sons of the state.

They are Mr. Tunde Omojola, Kehinde Fasuba and Dr. Ayo Daramola.

Daramola was murdered on August 14, 2004; Omojola on May 28, 2005; while Fasuba was murdered on January 3, 2009.

There were allegations in the state that their killings were politically-motivated and carried out in mysterious circumstances.

Source: Punch