Bayero University Kano authorities have arrested two individuals posing as lecturers. Discover the details of their arrest and the implications for the university community.
Two individuals pretending to be lecturers and selling books to naive first-year students were caught by the security personnel at Bayero University, Kano.
The Registrar’s representative, Bala Abdullahi of the university’s Special Bulletin, made a statement announcing the arrest.
Reportedly, D. Ilube from Edo State and C. Eke from Delta State infiltrated a lecture hall in the Faculty of Engineering where they deceitfully presented themselves as faculty members to 100-level students.
According to the statement, four textbooks were introduced on English usage, Statistics, Nigerian People and Culture as well as Algebra and Geometry Mathematics.
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The students were warned that obtaining these books was compulsory for their Continuous Assessment (CA), with failure to comply leading to failing grades in their respective courses.
Many students felt intimidated by the threats and subsequently purchased the books. Nonetheless, after a report was made, the university’s security team quickly apprehended the suspects.
“On July 25, 2024, two individuals were apprehended by security officials for criminal trespassing, impersonation and cheating. The preliminary investigation yielded that the suspects had written books themselves and owned up to their wrongdoing citing unemployment as a motive,” stated the press release.
It was disclosed by the suspects that they had previously attacked Kano State Polytechnic earlier this year, and their recent visit marked their second time in the state. The books discovered on them were of low standard and assumed to be counterfeit copies.
The statement stated that there is a disturbing pattern emerging in our institutions of higher education, wherein criminals purporting to be scholars deceive and take advantage of students.
According to Abdullahi, the perpetrators will be surrendered to law enforcement for additional measures. Moreover, students shall receive notification of these proceedings as a means of deterring future occurrences. Additionally, he underscored that authorities at the university have augmented their monitoring efforts in order to preclude similar incidents from taking place again.
