ADMISSION FRAUD IN U.I.

A notorious admission syndicate has been unmasked in the University of Ibadan (UI).
The gang, which comprises both staff and outsiders, was smashed recently when the university’s management discovered that over 63 students gained admissions through a fake process in the 2011/2012 session.
According to Crime watch investigation, three staff allegedly connived with four outsiders to perpetrate the admission fraud.
The victims of the admission rackets, according to investigation, were students between 100 and 400 levels before the bubble burst.
One of the victims, a 400 level student, who could not bear the trauma of wasting four years, had been admitted into a psychiatric hospital.
The syndicate issued fake admission letters, bogus receipts and even fake matriculation numbers to unsuspecting desperate students. The university’s Director of General Studies Programme, Prof. Ademola Dasilva, spoke to Crime watch on the shocking discovery.
Dasilva said: “We got 19 fake students who were apprehended in my unit within two weeks surveillance. I have over 15,000 students that passed through this unit every session. They are either freshers or bonafide students but they register in my department.
“I stumbled on a lead that ended  up in tracking a fake admission syndicate with considerable network in Lagos, Abeokuta and Ibadan.
“We arrested  three serving staff. The accused are Isaac Ubani ( Publication Unit of the Registry), Onaolapo Michael Adebayo (Dean of Science Office) and Adebiyi Omolade(Bursary).