BREAKING: Lagos State University Removes Student Affairs Dean After SaharaReporters’ Story On Certificate Racketeering

Professor Tajudeen’s putting off was in reference to a SaharaReporters’ large roar on certificates racketeering within the advise college.

The administration of Lagos Mutter University (LASU), Ojo, has eradicated the college Dean of Student Affairs, Prof. Tajudeen Olumoko.

Professor Tajudeen’s putting off was in reference to a SaharaReporters’ large roar on certificates racketeering within the advise college.

A supply within the college confirmed the Dean’s sack to PUNCH on Wednesday morning, revealing that a senior lecturer within the Department of Political Science, Dr Abiodun Fatai-Abatan, had been appointed as performing DSA.

“Yes, it is miles lawful, Olumoko has been eradicated and Abatan has taken over as DSA. This came in regards to the earlier day, (Tuesday),” the availability was quoted.

SaharaReporters had exclusively reported how a level can even very well be supplied for between N2 million and N3 million from some employees within the college.

The newspaper furthermore reported that in 2020-2021, a sting operation spearheaded by the college administration at the time and the Department of Mutter Products and companies (DSS) uncovered certificates racketeering within the college and succeeded in getting confessions from some contributors of the syndicate.
Sadly, sources talked about all of it ended with the administration of Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun as Vice-Chancellor.

His successor, Prof Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, has shown no passion in anyway in weeding out the wicked eggs within the college gadget, a security supply conscious of the investigation had told SaharaReporters.

SaharaReporters learnt that seemingly the most contributors of the level-awarding syndicate had since been promoted and in about a cases risen to alter into professors within the college.

Sources within the DSS told SaharaReporters that the sting operation which was extremely detailed and included the use of body cameras and other devices started in 2020 and culminated within the arrest and grilling of about a contributors of employees.

Some of the contributors of the syndicate who wrote confessional statements at the DSS in Lagos embody Muyideen Zubairu, Daniel Amos, Olowu Abiona, Akindele Qudus Tunde, Oyebanji Olumide Ezun, Tajudeen Abayomi Olumoko, Hammed Ayofe Mutalib, and London Oghenemaro Vincent.

“The certificates racketeering syndicate private staunch Lagos Mutter University certificates that somebody eager must aquire for between N2 million and N3 million, searching on the technicality of the route involved,” one in every of the sources talked about.

“Once they private their client, the handiest issues they’ll quiz from the shopper are cash and their O-stage certificates. They take a look at the selection of credits you private. That will settle the route they’ll suggest. As mavens, they know the route you have to cease or the level you have to head for when you private this or that. Once that is settled, they private contributors of the syndicate within the ICT department of the college who will enter the person’s date into the server. They gain the cash and enter all of your rankings, and after, this is in a position to possibly well even be posted on the server of the college.

“Whenever you shuffle to the college’s server with the matric number generated for you, you find the name and predominant capabilities of the pupil there as an reliable pupil.”

SaharaReporters learnt that all around the sting operation, cash was paid individually and at varied times to Daniel Amos and Akindele Qudus Tunde for two degrees, one in Industrial Relatives and Personnel Administration.

Amos charged N2 million for the Industrial Relatives and Personnel Administration level for one Adewoye Michael – whose O-stage consequence was historical nevertheless he was already a graduate of one more college at the time. Internal three days, the profile of Adewoye Michael together with a newly generated matric number and false results from 365 days 1 to final 365 days had been uploaded on the college’s server.

SaharaReporters furthermore reported that the Lagos Mutter Rental of Assembly on Tuesday deliberated on the roar on certificates racketeering at the advise college (LASU) and invited the Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Tolani Akibu, and the college’s vice-chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, among others.