Student Arrested While Attempting to Secure Admission With Fake WAEC Result in Freetown

Sahid Kargbo, a student, has been remanded at the Male Correctional Centre in Freetown by Magistrate Mustapha Brima Jah of Pademba Road Court No. 1 after he was arraigned on charges of conspiracy to defraud, forgery, and uttering a forged document allegedly connected to a West African Examinations Council (WAEC) result.

The accused appeared before the court on three counts, namely conspiracy to defraud contrary to law, forgery contrary to Section 4(1) of the Forgery Act of 1913, and uttering a forged document contrary to Section 6(1) and (2) of the Forgery Act of 1913.