Three NECO Staff And 6 Others To Get 12 Years Jail Term Each for Forgery And Involvement In Examination Mal-Practice

Just Three week after the official release of NECO results for this year, Nemesis caught up with some members of staff of the National Examinations Council (NECO) as they were sentenced to 12 years in prison each for forgery and involvement in Examination Malpractise. We decided to list Names of the NECO staff who are involved in Forgery:

1. Andrew. 2. Umaru Aliyu. 3. Christian Moses A.K.A Danjuma Musa. And Six others were also sentenced alongside the NECO staff for the same offences, making the number of NECO staffs being involved in this Forgery a total of NINE!.

Originally, Ten people had been arraigned before the Court Of Law, One of the 10 arraigned before the Chief Magistrate Court 11 Minna , one Hassan Ayuba had pleaded not guilty to the three count charges and was ordered to be remanded in prison custody for further hearing. While the other 9 Neco Staffs pleaded guilty to the charges and they were summarily sentenced.

Information Reaching Us according to Ahmed Danladi, Who is the prosecutor of the Case, said that the principal state counsel in the state Ministry of justice, that the culprits had been arraigned on a three count charge of forgery of NECO SSCE Certificate. This range over 730 Number of the Council’s Certificate and over 427 copies of NECO Examination slip were print out before the examination.

While other documents forged include the following. 1. Niger State Certificate of indigene. 2. Statement result of the state’s college of education and other documents for the sole purpose of selling to various agents and buyers at prices which ranges from N10,000, N25,000 and above.

The third count charge is for counterfeiting an official seal of NECO for the purpose of authenticating the forged documents. The offences are contrary to sections 364 and 367 of the penal code under section 79, and the prosecutor had prayed the court to sanction them accordingly since they have pleaded guilty to the charges being placed on them. The Chief magistrate presiding over the Case, Hassan Mohammed has therefore sentenced them to four years each on the three count charges and did not accede to their plea, describing the offence as grievous and that the punishment will serve as a deterrent to others who are involved in the same illegal trade of selling examination documents. This Move foresights that in the Coming Years, the rate of Examination Malpractice in Nigeria will decrease drastically.