According to a report by SR, Ambrose Ezewani, an ex student of
the University of Lagos and former President of the National Association
of Delta State students, UNILAG chapter, who blew the lid on a
systematic student bursary racketing allegedly spearheaded by the
Commissioner for Higher Education in Delta state, Mr Hope Eghagha has
been handed over to the Delta state Government
the University of Lagos and former President of the National Association
of Delta State students, UNILAG chapter, who blew the lid on a
systematic student bursary racketing allegedly spearheaded by the
Commissioner for Higher Education in Delta state, Mr Hope Eghagha has
been handed over to the Delta state Government
Sahara Reporters reports..
Police officers in Sabo Station yesterday afternoon handed him over after
the Delta State officials visited to ask for his transfer to Asaba,
Delta State where he will be most likely tortured and “tried” for
revealing the fraud perpetrated by officials of the state.
Ezeanwani was President of the National Association of Delta State
Students Union at the University of Lagos. During his tenure, he
revealed that the bursary system was fraught with fraud, which he said
was being perpetrated by men in the scholarship board in Delta State. Continue...
Commissioner for Higher Education in the State, Mr. Hope Eghagha came on
board. Mr. Eghagha a former professor at the University of lagos was a
former newspaper columnist and critic of the Delta state government
before bagging a government appointment a few years ago.
Ezeawani claims that Eghagha’s office had created a system for
students bursary application where non-existing students are awarded
bursary by the state.
He said in his investigation, which the UNILAG students’ records
office corroborated, the names published as “approved” for bursary
awards every year where non-existent in the Institution’s official
records.
Ezeawani further stated that his research discovered that the office
of the Commissioner for Higher Education in Delta State led by Eghagha
had generated about 23,000 fake students and bank accounts and sorts
codes throughout institutions across the country to siphon bursary funds
while publishing fake names of beneficiaries in the print media every
year.
Although few genuine names of students are mixed in the published
bursary approval list every year, it is observed that most of the
genuine students are shut out of the scheme while non-existing names are
paraded.
Ambrose had led series of protest marches calling for investigations
into the scam, however, the Economic and financial crimes Commission
EFCC) to whom he directed his protests did nothing to investigate the
fraud.
Last Wednesday on his way to Federal college of education
(Technical) Akoka some men in mufti pulled up in front of him and
attempted forcing him into their car. Ezeawani said he resisted and
headed for the police station in Sabo instead. The men followed him and
asked the police to hand him over but the police refused. The men
apparently sent by the Delta state government then asked that Ezeawani
be detained for them to go and prepare documents from Asaba to
facilitate his hand over.
He has now been handed over today to policemen from Asaba who are
suspected to be doing the bidding of the Delta State officials.
Ambrose had before now done an underground
investigation over bursary allocations to indigines of the state
nationwide and discovered that the Commissioner's office had over the
years produced about 23,000 fake students and bank accounts and sorts
codes throughout institutions across the country to siphon bursary funds
while publishing fake names of beneficiaries in the print media every
year. In UNILAG, the student record office collaborated Ambrose's claim
that most of the Delta state students published for bursary allocations
were non-existent to the school.
investigation over bursary allocations to indigines of the state
nationwide and discovered that the Commissioner's office had over the
years produced about 23,000 fake students and bank accounts and sorts
codes throughout institutions across the country to siphon bursary funds
while publishing fake names of beneficiaries in the print media every
year. In UNILAG, the student record office collaborated Ambrose's claim
that most of the Delta state students published for bursary allocations
were non-existent to the school.
Ambrose wrote several petitions to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission but none of his petitions was attended to.
Last
Wednesday, April 23, while on his way to the Federal College of
Technology Akoka, Ambrose was accosted by plain clothed men who demanded
he entered their vehicle and follow them which he refused since he did
not know who they were. He then decided to walk to the nearest police
station within the area there which was the Sabo Police station with
those men tailing him. On getting to the police station, he told the
police men there what happened and the police men refused to let him go
saying whoever wanted him arrested should come with a warrant of arrest
and so they kept him in their custody with the men pleading that they do
not allow him go as they would soon return with a warrant
Wednesday, April 23, while on his way to the Federal College of
Technology Akoka, Ambrose was accosted by plain clothed men who demanded
he entered their vehicle and follow them which he refused since he did
not know who they were. He then decided to walk to the nearest police
station within the area there which was the Sabo Police station with
those men tailing him. On getting to the police station, he told the
police men there what happened and the police men refused to let him go
saying whoever wanted him arrested should come with a warrant of arrest
and so they kept him in their custody with the men pleading that they do
not allow him go as they would soon return with a warrant
Two days ago, they got the warrant and Ambrose has been taken to Delta state.
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