DEAD MAN WALKING: NIGERIAN MAN NABBED FOR IDENTITY THEFT OF A MAN KILLED 20YEARS AGO

A security breach of the highest order was uncovered at Newark Liberty Airport, yesterday.A Nigerian illegal immigrant allegedly assumed the identity of a dead man to get to a top security job at the airport,CBS 2's Marcia Kramer reported.The Ports Authority of New York and New Jersey is calling this" dead man walking". 

The man was identified as Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole but he was known at Newark Airport to his co-workers as Jerry Thomas and for nearly 20 years he has guarded some of the most secure areas of one of the busiest airports.He was arrested yesterday after authorities discovered he is really an illegal Nigerian immigrant with four other aliases who entered the U.S in 1989.,
"In this case,the defendant utilized an elaborate and complex scheme of identity fraud to defraud his employer,the state of New Jersey,the Federal government and the Port Authority." Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Inspector General Robert Van Etten said.

Somehow,Oyewole obtained the birth certificate and social security number of a man murdered in Queens in 1992.He then used them to get a New Jersey driver's license,a state security guard license,airport identification and even credit cards.At the time of his arrest,he supervised 30 other guards.Taking into consideration,a Nigerian,the underwear bomber almost bombed a plane full of passengers a few years ago,this case is going to be taken very seriously.