No.5 Igbe Road,
Auchi,
Edo State.
8th January, 2018

The Honourable Chairman,
Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission,
Federal Capital Territory,
Abuja.

Sir,

DEFRAUDING OF AUCHI POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS BY THE ACTING RECTOR, DR. SANUSI MOMODU JIMAH

This is to once again bring to your notice and also as a reminder of the financial crimes committed by Dr. Sanusi Jimah, Acting Rector, Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, which we earlier reported to you vide a petitions and protest we staged at the ministry of education late last year.

STUDENTS IDENTITY CARDS FOR THE 2016/2017 ACADEMIC SESSION
During the 2016/2017 academic session while Comrade Samson Okoduwa held sway as the Students’ Union Government President (SUG) of the institution, students were made to pay the sum of N1,500:00 (One thousand five hundred naira each for them to be issued their identify cards for the session.
The over 35,000, thirty five thousands students of the institution paid for the identify cards which amounts to the sum of N52,000,000:00 (Fifty two million naira only for the regular students.
This same fraud and deprivation was equally replicated by him in the evening programme as none of the students was ever issued any identify card by the management of the institution.
Prior to the second semester examination, the Students’ Union Executives had a meeting with the Acting Rector to prevail on him to please issue their identity cards to them, having paid for it since the beginning of the session.
This plea was met with stiff resistance as he embezzled the money at the expense of the students. What a monumental fraud?
The frown given on this monumental fraud by the Students Union Government President, Comrade Samson Okoduwa and his Executive members earned us expulsion letters by the institution as directed by the Acting Rector.

SHORTCHANGING AND SURCHARGING POST UTME CANDIDATES INSPITE OF THE HONOURABLE MINISTER’S WARNINGS

The Honourable Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who gave a stern warning to all Tertiary Institution to desist from the conduct of Post UTME screening in 2017, had his instructions and warnings floated by the belligerent Acting Rector of Auchi Polytechnic, Dr. Sanusi Momodu Jimah as he went ahead to conduct the exercise where he also swindled the applicants / candidates.
After issuing a circular and time table prior to the exercise, candidates were instructed to pay the sum of N2,000:00 (Two thousand Naira), each to designated banks, he went behind and mandated these banks not to collect less than N4,500:00 (four thousand five hundred naira) each from them.
What a pious fraud and an act unbecoming of a Chief Executive Officer.
When this fraud was reported via petitions by the students union Government (SUG), to the relevant agencies, including the ministry of Education, the Acting Rector immediately put a notice on the institution’s website, directing the candidates he swindled to excess the refund of excess charges. What a pious fraud? (see attached).

SALES OF ADMISSION FORMS TO APPLICANTS AND REFUSAL TO CLEAR THEM AFTER ADMISSION

It is clearly on record that during the 2017/2018 admission exercise, Dr. Sanusi Momodu Jimah defrauded thousands of applicants by refusing to clear them after he had admitted them. His major intention was to sell the admission forms to them, swindle them of their hard-earned money (s), admit and send them back home.

Over three(3) academic departments of the institution have lost accreditation due to his ineptitude and clueless. Inspite of this accreditation and other man-made challenges, he went ahead to sell admission forms to thousands of innocent and unsuspecting applicants and subsequently refused to clear them for registration after admitting them. Why did he to sell admissions , screen and admit them and later deny/deprive them of clearance and registration? This is indeed a monumental fraud. What an evil way of defrauding innocent and unsuspecting children?
All these should be thoroughly investigated by the relevant agencies with a view to ensuring that he is brought to book.


DEFRAUDING THE NATIONAL DIPLOMA GRADUANDS OF 2015/2016 SESSION

As has been the practice in the polytechnic system of education, National Diploma graduates must undergo a compulsory one(1) year Industrial Training (IT) before they are eligible to apply for admission into the Higher National Diploma(HND) Programme.
Due to strike actions and other related issues which rendered the institutions’ academic calendar unstable and interrupted severally, the 2015/2016 academic calendar spilled over to early January, 2017. They were however allowed to purchase the admission forms for the 2017/2018 academic session into the HND progrmme, even though they didn’t spend up to a year in carrying out the compulsory Industrial Training (IT).
There were screened thoroughly and admitted into the HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA (HND) programme but were immediately refused clearance and screening on the flimsy alibi that they did not complete their compulsory one(1) year Industrial Training(IT). They were actually denied and deprived of clearance and registration after they have been duly admitted.
It might interest all and sundry, particularly the anti-graft agencies to note that over three thousand(3,000) applicants were defrauded in this show of shame, with each purchasing the form at the rate of #14,850;00 (fourteen thousand eight hundred and fifty naira). What a pious fraud?

The same Acting Rector, Dr. Sanusi Jimah whom we learnt recently that he simultaneously collected his Masters Degree notification of result and PhD admission letter same day and date. From a very reliable source in Ambrose Alli University, he collected his Masters Degree notification of result on the 28th of March, 2008. In the same vein, he was allegedly issued admission letter to under a PhD programme on same day and date being 27th March, 2008.
This is highly questionable in its entirety.

FRAUDULENT WITHDRAWAL OF MONEY FROM THE STUDENTS UNION GOVERNMENTS (SUG) BANK ACCOUNT

Without any change of signatory in the students account NO: 1019985885 with account name “ Student Union Government Account Auchi Poly with the United Bank for Africa (UBA), The acting Rector connived and conspired with one Emmanuel Ogbiti and withdrew the sum of #280,000:00 (Two hundred and eighty one thousand naira), from the Students Unions account without the consent, and mandate of those who are signatories to the account on the 3rd of January, 2017 at 02:04pm from the Auchi branch of UBA.
Emmanuel Ogbiti is totally unknown to me as he has never been a signatory to the account. This should also be investigated by the anti-graft agencies, especially the ICPC and the EFCC as only Samson Okoduwa, Obukovwho Favour and one other are still the valid signatories to the account but now being exposed and allowed access by UBA to criminals. This is very unbecoming of a new generation Bank.

Yours faithfully,

Samson Okoduwa