A
Ghanaian man pretending to be a lawyer has been arrested after he used wrong
legal language in court.
The
suspect, Emmanuel Marfo, 23, appeared at the Koforidua Circuit Court, on Friday
as a defence attorney in a civil dispute between Peter Amanor and Hanson Annoh,
who alleged that Amanor failed to pay him, money he lent him.
According
to Ebenezer Tetteh, Public Relations Officer for the Police in the Eastern
Region, Judge Evelyn Asamoah, who presided over the case, became
suspicious when Marfo (who was defending Amanor) used an incorrect legal
language in court.
The
judge proceeded to ask Marfo where he attended school. He replied that he went
to the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration’s School of Law.
He was then asked to furnish proof, but he could provide none.
Asamoah
ordered for his arrest.
Initial
police investigations revealed that Marfo never took nor passed the bar
examination.
Marfo
is currently facing two counts of deceit of court and impersonation.
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