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Two FRSC officials in ICPC Net for Certificate Forgery

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Two officers of the Federal Highway Security Corps (FRSC), Edwin Onyuwe and Achigili Ogoli, have been arrested by the Unbiased Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC) for certificates forgery.

The Fee additionally arrested two members of a certificates forgery syndicate, Mr. Sunday Okpara and Abdulrahman Razak, for forging the certificates of the College of Abuja for the 2 officers of FRSC.

Their arrest in Abuja, adopted a petition by the Corps Marshal, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, to the Fee, by which he alleged that the 2 officers had approached the administration of FRSC with solid Bachelor of Science levels in Public Administration, from the College of Abuja, to be upgraded to officer cadre.

The 2 officers had been alleged to have additionally offered pretend statements of end result from the identical establishment to the administration of FRSC for a similar function of upgrading to officer cadre.Earlier than their arrest by ICPC, the Corps had contacted the College of Abuja to determine the authenticity of the certificates.

The college wrote a reply to FRSC confirming that the diploma certificates had been solid.But, Onyuwe and Ogoli, maintained that they had been originals accredited by the college, having allegedly paid N500,000 bribe to a employees of the college to falsify information to be able to again their declare.

ICPC, in the middle of the investigation, discovered that the 2 FRSC officers had been college students of the Distance Studying programme of the college.

Nonetheless, they might not graduate because of poor outcomes, as paperwork from the college confirmed that they had a number of carry-overs within the programs registered.

This allegedly made them method the forgery syndicate to organize the cast diploma certificates for them to current to their group for the improve of their cadre.

The quantity of N430,000 was discovered to have been paid to the syndicate for the forgery, with Onyuwe paying N230,000 whereas Ogoli paid N200,000 respectively.

Meantime, a member of the syndicate, Razak, who claimed to be a printer, informed ICPC operatives that he used an authentic certificates from the college obtained from a pal to excellent the forgery.

Different members of the syndicate embrace Matthias Ibitiye, Usman Danjuma, and Uchenna Ifeonu. The matter will likely be charged to courtroom upon the conclusion of investigation.