Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ilorin zonal office, has arrested three persons including a Vice Principal for allegedly collecting money from students participating in the ongoing National Examination Council (NECO) at Government Day Secondary School, Ote in Eiye-Nkorin, Asa local government area of Kwara state.
The suspects are the Vice Principal of the School, Issa Abdulrahman; a teacher, Usman Lanre Kayode; and a supervisor of the examination in the centre, Saka Isiaka.
In a statement by the head, media and publicity of the commission, Wilson Uwujare, the antigraft agency had received an intelligence report that the school management and supervisors of the centre were extorting monies from the students writing NECO in order to assist them in the examination.
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It was gathered that the principal of the school usually separate students who could not contribute money and put them in another classroom to write their papers.
Problem started for the suspects, according to reports, when an operative of the commission, came to the school last Friday, pretending to be a passerby.
An iPad containing answers to all the questions was recovered from them.
The statement said suspects would soon be charged to court.
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