
Peter Iyiola Oyewole, a personal lawyer to former Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Adedibu Ojerinde, yesterday told a Federal High Court in Abuja how his client disguised the ownership of companies and property he allegedly acquired with the N5.2 billion he is accused of diverting while in office.
Oyewole said Ojerinde did this by listing his children, friends and associates as directors and shareholders of the companies.

The lawyer, who was testifying as the first prosecution witness in Ojerinde’s trial, said some of the properties were acquired with others’ names while in some cases, the ex-JAMB boss altered his names.
In an instance, the ex-JAMB Registrar was identified as “Ojerinde Dibu,” as a director in one of the companies, while in another company, he was identified as “Ojerinde Akanbi.”
Led in evidence by Ebenezer Shogunle, a lawyer with the Independent Corrupt Practice and other related offences Commission (ICPC), Oyewole identified some of the companies as Oke Afin Boys and Girls Hostels Limited; Sapatti International School; Doyin Ogboyi Petroleum Limited; Cheng Marble Limited; Stand Out Institutes; Trillion Learning Centres Limited; Grace Petroleum Limited, and Ifelodun Communications Limited.
He said his decision to testify in the case was in compliance with an earlier order of the court and in a bid to fault Ojerinde’s claim that he did not instruct him (the lawyer) to buy the said property and register the companies.
The lawyer also told the court that he acted on instructions from Ojerinde, including the houses he bought for the defendants in his (the lawyer’s) firm’s name.
