A pastor in one of the big Pentecostal churches in the country and three other directors in the Ogun State Ministry of Education are presently undergoing interrogation over their roles in the N200 million West African Examination Council, WAEC, fees fraud recently uncovered in the state.

Sources Police confirmed yesterday in Abeokuta, that those held in connection with the large scale fraud included two males and two females who are all senior officials of the ministry.

This was just as the state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Segun Odubela, confirmed that four officials of his ministry were presently undergoing interrogation over the fraud.

Odubela, who described the incident as an “ugly” development, however, promised to expatiate further on the incident during the ministerial press briefing his ministry will be addressing today in the state capital.

National Mirror also gathered that police detectives have succeeded in uncovering huge sums of money lodged in the bank accounts of those already interrogated.

At least N20 million was said to have been uncovered in the personal account of the said pastor who could not explain the source of the money when interrogated.

Also, four exotic cars were said to have been found in the house of the said pastor, who was pleading for forgiveness, while N10 million and N15 million were also discovered in two of his accounts.

It was further gathered that the detectives were already closing in on proprietors of some private secondary schools involved in the shady deal in the state.

The police source, however, said that appreciable progress had been made on the large scale fraud, stressing that; “I want to tell you that we are not resting on our oars to get the cabal within the state ministry of education.”

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