•Mass deployment likely in exams and records office
By Gabriel Dike
With arrest and quizzing of some of its staff, the management of Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech) will soon constitute a panel to investigate certificate forgery rocking the institution.
According to head of Public Relations of Yabatech, Dr. Charles Oni, the Rector, Dr. Ladipo Margaret, want to get to the bottom of the matter and will therefore raise the panel to probe the incident, with the view to finding out how it happened and those involved.
He confirmed the arrest of the principal suspect, Seun Adebayo and disclosed that other staff were invited and interrogated by the police.
Oni said query would be issued to those fingered in the fraud, who will later face a panel.
The certificate fraud broke out last week when the Personal Assistant to a member of the House of Representative from Kogi raised the alarm over activities of some Yabatech staff in the exams and records department.
This had led to the arrest of Adebayo, whose house was searched and Yabatech results, college stamps and documents were found.
The institute’s registrar and two heads of department were interrogated and granted bail on self-recognition.
Meanwhile, Yabatech is planning reorganisation of the exams and records office, which would lead to redeployment of staff.
It was gathered that the school authority believe there are others, apart from Adebayo, involved in certificates forgery.
A Yabatech staff, who pleaded anonymity, said: “The certificate forgery caught the college’s management unaware. Many staff didn’t believe it when the news hit the college. But when the management and staff realised the certificate scam was real, it began discreet investigation. There will be reorganisation of exams and record office because of this incident.”