Ambrose handcuffed and driven away to Asaba Delta State
An ex-student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Mr. Ambrose
Ezeanwani, who exposed a racket in the students’ bursary scheme in
Delta state was handed over to men from the Delta State Government this
afternoon after days of illegal detention in Lagos.
Police officers in Sabo Station this afternoon handed him over after
the Delta State officials visited to ask for his transfer to Asaba,
Delta State where he will be most likely tortured and “tried” for
revealing the fraud perpetrated by officials of the state.
Ezeanwani was President of the National Association of Delta State
Students Union at the University of Lagos. During his tenure, he
revealed that the bursary system was fraught with fraud, which he said
was being perpetrated by men in the scholarship board in Delta State.
Ezeawani alleged that the irregularities surfaced since the current
Commissioner for Higher Education in the State, Mr. Hope Eghagha came on
board. Mr. Eghagha a former professor at the University of lagos was a
former newspaper columnist and critic of the Delta state government
before bagging a government appointment a few years ago.
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Leader of detectives that came to take Ambrose away today
Ambrose being forced into a vehicle brought by the Delta State govt
Ambrose waves before he was finally driven away
Ambrose in detention at Sabo Police station
Ezeawani claims that Eghagha’s office had created a system for
students bursary application where non-existing students are awarded
bursary by the state.
He said in his investigation, which the UNILAG students’ records
office corroborated, the names published as “approved” for bursary
awards every year where non-existent in the Institution’s official
records.
Ezeawani further stated that his research discovered that the office
of the Commissioner for Higher Education in Delta State led by Eghagha
had generated about 23,000 fake students and bank accounts and sorts
codes throughout institutions across the country to siphon bursary funds
while publishing fake names of beneficiaries in the print media every
year.
Although few genuine names of students are mixed in the published
bursary approval list every year, it is observed that most of the
genuine students are shut out of the scheme while non-existing names are
paraded.
Ambrose had led series of protest marches calling for investigations
into the scam, however, the Economic and financial crimes Commission
EFCC) to whom he directed his protests did nothing to investigate the
fraud.
Last Wednesday on his way to Federal college of education
(Technical) Akoka some men in mufti pulled up in front of him and
attempted forcing him into their car. Ezeawani said he resisted and
headed for the police station in Sabo instead. The men followed him and
asked the police to hand him over but the police refused. The men
apparently sent by the Delta state government then asked that Ezeawani
be detained for them to go and prepare documents from Asaba to
facilitate his hand over.
He has now been handed over today to policemen from Asaba who are
suspected to be doing the bidding of the Delta State officials.
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