Students from the Delta State sect protested yesterday, 15th may in front of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) gate and all schools in Lagos State in a loud, though peaceful gathering. They were protesting a financial scam they say continues in their bursary, and is led by the personnel of the Commission for Higher Education in their State and also the release of Comrade Ambrose who has been allegedly detained.
The students, mostly members of the National Association of Delta State Students Union (NADESSTU) had accused bursary officials of theft and fraud, pointing out that fake names were generated as the beneficiaries of the bursary especiallyin UNILAG.
They addressed what they say is the wide use of fake names by the bursary in a complex motion of financial fraud that is also perpetrated at other institutions across the federation. The protesters said that Mr. Hope Eghagha, the Commissioner for Higher Education in Delta State, is in a highly questionable and fraudulent association with a software firm he introduced upon his assumption of the high office sometime in 2009. They said that Eghagha and the software firm had generated hundreds of fake names, which the universities had later proven as non-existent through their records. The questionable arrangement then led to a scheme to siphon from the bursaries millions of naira, while denying genuine students the financial benefits.
In an earlier petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC,) the students had connected the roles of bank officials with those of personnel at the office of Mr. Hope Eghagha to perpetrate the fraud.
Their demands included returning the siphoned bursaries to the genuine students, bringing those they named, others who perpetrated the fraud through office of Mr. Hope Eghagha to justice and most importantly, the release of Comrade AMBROSE
Checkout pics from the protest below
Deltans should disregard this report becos the said Ambrose is a criminal.
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