A fake Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Fidelis Chukwujindu, who runs an illegal university known as University College Hospital, Ogboko in Ideato South Local Government Area of Imo State, has been arrested by the state police command.
Also arrested was a middle-aged woman, Ngozi Ayeoha, accused of being the ‘Dean of Faculty of Medicine’ in the illegal college, and who was said to be a drop out from a school of nursing.
The fake vice-chancellor, who hails from Umudumabiakam village, Ogboko, was arrested while conducting an entrance examination in an uncompleted building used as the university’s temporary site for about 576 students, who he allegedly swindled of N4.6million.
The victims reportedly purchased the admission forms at N8, 000 each. Most of the students were said to have been convinced of the genuineness of the illegal college that was strategically located opposite the proposed site of the Imo State University and adjacent to the Rochas Foundation College, Ogboko, which the ‘students’ claimed the fraudster used to deceive them.
Chukwujindu, who claimed to be an Americantrained medical doctor, was later found to be a native doctor, who claimed to have the permission of the state government to run his nonexistent college hospital, which has the sign post; “University College Hospital, Ogboko, Ideato, P. O. Box 1960 Orlu, Imo State. He told journalists that to open an institution does not require the approval of the National Universities Commission, NUC.
“This is a college and not a university and, as such, I did not obtain approval from the NUC and I went to the Federal Ministry of Education, Abuja, severally where I obtained approval and it is affiliated to the University of London,” he maintained.
Parading the suspects yesterday, the state Police Commissioner, Mr. Muhammad Katsina, said one striking thing about the strategy of the gang was that they carefully selected the site opposite the Imo State University, Ogboko, quite adjacent to the Rochas Foundation College, Ogboko. This, Katsina said, was to convince their victims of the genuineness of their business.
“This is a primitive catalogue of illegality by a self-acclaimed medical doctor, who dubiously parades himself as a product of the prestigious Harvard University in America, but who is nothing but a native doctor.
“More than 5, 000 people from various parts of the country in search of education have been swindled by this man.”
The police boss, who said that the suspect and his cohorts were arrested following intelligence report available to his command, however, assured that the police are determined to rid the state of all undesirable elements.
He said the command would not allow such unholy trend to negatively affect the zeal and ambitions of the victims.
Source: National Mirror
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