Kwara Poly Nabs Cybercafe Owner for Helping Students Forge Certificates

A young man who was making a career out of helping students in forging sensitive documents in Kwara state has been nabbed. See his picture after the cut....

It was the end of the road for Mohammed Opeyemi, who owned an internet cafe on the premises of Kwara State Polytechnic in Ilorin, Kwara State, Punch reports.

Opeyemi, who was arrested by the security personnel of the institution, had for a long time been allegedly forging fees clearance documents for the graduating students of the school.

Narrating how the culprit was apprehended on Wednesday, the Rector of Kwarapoly, Alhaji Mas’ud Elelu, said the suspect was caught with a stamp and signature specimen of the approving officer of the audit department of the institution.

Elelu, who is also the Chairman, Council of Heads of Polytechnics and Colleges of Technology in Nigeria, described the action of the suspect as an economic sabotage and a dent to the image of the polytechnic.

According to him, Opeyemi was later handed over to the police for interrogation and possible prosecution. He added that after investigation, any student or staff that is an accomplice of the culprit would be punished.

Elelu said, “We caught him through our intelligent network. We caught him with some of the stamps and documents he had forged. He had stamps of the audit department and even the signature of the man in audit that normally signs the document.