A 33-year-old administrator of
the Lagos State University, LASU,
Onipanu Annex, Lagos State,was
recently charged before an Isolo
Magistrate’s Court for stealing,
after he allegedly bolted with
students’ tuition fees.
The accused, Mr Olusesan
Oduwole allegedly stole N5
million after printing his own
receipts and collected fees from
other students. According to
information made available to
DailyPost, Oduwole was
employed as an administrator by
the institution and was allocated
some receipts to use to collect
students’ tuition fees. Instead of
doing so, he secretly printed his
own receipts and was diverting
some of the money to personal
pocket.
This had been going on for a
while, but unknown to him, the
new receipts he was given were
secretly marked. However when
the management eventually
discovered what Oduwole was
doing, and he got wind that his
game was up, he fled.
He was later arrested by the
police at Area ‘D’ Mushin and
allegedly owned up to the fraud.
He said he committed the crime
to raise money to solve his
personal problems. Oduwole was
handed over to the police.
He allegedly made confessional
statement to the police and said
that he did not divert up to N5
million. When he was arraigned,
he pleaded not guilty. The
presiding Magistrate, Mrs Kayode,
granted him bail in the sum of
N200,000 with two sureties in
like sum. He was remanded in
prison custody at Kirikiri pending
the perfection of his bail. The
matter was adjourned to 20
June.