EFCC Arrests Vice Principal, Others over Examination Malpractices in Kwara

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal
Office, has arrested three persons including a vice principal for
allegedly collecting money from students participating in the
ongoing National Examination Council (NECO).

The incident, according to THISDAY checks, happened at
Government Day Secondary School, Ote in Eiye-Nkorin area of Kwara
State.

The suspects, it was learnt, include: the Vice Principal of the
school, Issa Abdulrahman, a Teacher, Usman Lanre Kayode and a
Supervisor of the examination in the centre, Saka Isiaka.

It was gathered that, the principal of the school usually
separate the students who could not contribute money and put them
in another classroom to write their papers.

Sources closed to the anti-graft agency told journalists
yesterday in Ilorin that there was an intelligence report that the
school management and supervisors of the centre were extorting
monies from the students writing NECO in order to assist them in
the examination.

Sources added that the development prompted one of the
operatives of the commission to dress in an usual way, pretending
to be a passerby and the suspects were later arrested.

During the arrest, an iPad containing answers to all the
questions were recovered from them.

Contacted on the development, EFCC Ilorin Zonal Coordinator, Mr.
Ishyaku Sharu, confirmed the report to THISDAY.

He, however, said “the suspects would soon be charged to
court.”