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MAPOLY may expel 49 final year students over fake results

By Francesca Hangeior.

 

At least 49 Higher National Diploma final-year students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic may be expelled, following a result verification process that exposed the alleged use of fake National Diploma results.

It was gathered from a result verification update released by the polytechnic that the students had allegedly presented fake ND results while seeking admission into the institution’s HND programmes.

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In a two-batch result verification list released by the polytechnic, the affected students cut across Mass Communication, Pharmaceutical Technology, Marketing, Science Laboratory Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Accountancy, among others.

Some of the fake results were reportedly obtained from The Polytechnic, Ibadan; Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro; Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic, Eruwa; and Ibarapa Polytechnic, Eruwa, Oyo State.

The institution had on Monday announced the indefinite closure of the polytechnic over a planned protest by the students.

Speaking with our correspondent on Thursday, the institution’s Public Relations Officer, ‘Yemi Ajibola, noted that the verification was part of the institution’s process of authenticating documents submitted by admitted students.

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Ajibola noted that the delay in the release of results was occasioned by the verification process, and after due diligence, the affected students were found to have submitted fake ND results.

He said, “We have our internal mechanisms for verifying results submitted by every polytechnic student. Some of the results had yet to be verified because the schools they came from had yet to confirm their results, while some of the results were found to be fake.

“We had a backlog of results to verify because of some administrative issue that necessitated the delay, and we are working on getting them resolved as soon as possible.”

He added that the students with fake results would not be immediately expelled but would be allowed to come and defend the results before final action was taken.

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“They will not be expelled immediately. The institution will write to each of the affected students to come and defend the result they presented, and in a circumstance where we detect an error in the verification process, we will rectify it.

“However, anyone who could not substantiate his/her results will be expelled,” Ajibola said.

Meanwhile, the Polytechnic management has reinstalled the Students Union Executive Council, which was earlier dissolved on Monday.

A statement by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Mr. Yemi Ajibola, said the reinstatement followed the intervention of the institution’s Governing Council, led by Emeritus Prof Kamaldeen Balogun, over the students crisis that led to the closure of the institution on Monday.

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“The Governing Council has directed that the incumbent Students Union Executive Council, dissolved in the wake of the crisis, be reinstated immediately to resume its oversight function.”

“The union is hereby expected to conduct Students Union elections in line with the provisions of the Union’s Constitution and hand over to new set of elected leaders within the next four (4) weeks.”.

“Management thanks Staff, Students, and the entire community for their patience, understanding, and cooperation over the events in the past week and wishes them well”.

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