The Igbajo Polytechnic, Igbajo, Osun State, has sacked its acting rector, Akinola Olaolu, for allegedly presenting fraudulent certificates.
PUNCH Metro gathered that the decision was reached after a meeting of the polytechnic’s governing council and board of trustees on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.
However, our correspondent was told that shortly after the resolution to fire Olaolu was reached and announced, the school’s management called a meeting of its workers and threatened to punish those who broke the scandal.
PUNCH Metro had reported that there was a crisis at the polytechnic over the alleged fraudulent PhD certificate of the rector.
Olaolu reportedly came into the school in December 2015 as a deputy rector to the former rector, Tanimowo Oke.
However, because he claimed to have a PhD in Economics from the UI, his arrival led to the exit of Oke, who had a master’s degree as of then.
More than eight months after his arrival, he was reported to have refused to produce his purported PhD certificate, as he submitted only a notification of result to obtain the job.
A former registrar at the polytechnic, Bisi Odebunmi, was said to have also left the school after he (Odebunmi) demanded the PhD certificate in an official memo.
When PUNCH Metro contacted the UI with a copy of the notification of result, the Director of Public Communications, UI, Olatunji Oladejo, said the institution had no record of the rector.
The rector’s purported thesis supervisor, Prof. Ademola Ariyo, also told PUNCH Metro that there was no record of Olaolu in the Department of Economics where he claimed to have bagged the doctorate.
When our correspondent confronted the rector with the UI’s position on the notification of result, he said he had just obtained his PhD certificate from the school.
Our correspondent, however, obtained a copy of the certificate through a source.
Like the notification of result, the purported certificate was sent to UI for verification and was again disclaimed.
The University of Lagos, Akoka, where Olaolu claimed that he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Economics also said checks revealed that the rector did obtain a BSc in Economics from the school.
Source: Punch NG
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