The National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) announced yesterday that three persons, who cheated in its examinations, had been sentenced to prison terms ranging from three months to nine years.
Registrar of the Board, Prof. David Awanbor, announced this while briefing journalists in Benin, naming two of the persons involved in the examination malpractice and sentenced to prison terms of nine years as Patrick Ogyokok, 68, and James Abiola.
According to him, the two, who were appointed by NABTEB as supervisors and invigilator for its examinations, were found guilty and sentenced to the prison terms by Justice I.N.Buba of the Federal High Court, Lafia, Nasarawa State.
He said the two accused persons, who were teachers at a commercial and technical institution in Keffi, one of the board’s examination centers, were convicted on a three-count charge for three years each which were to run concurrently. Prof. Awanbor told journalists that dedicated and vigilant NABTEB officials, who promptly alerted the authorities of the board and reported the matter to the police, detected the crime.
Those charged were the Chairman of the task force, Colonel Felix Igiebor, Mr. Friday Wise Osah, Mr. Martins Osifo, Mr. Imafidon Omoronghomwan, Mr. Maxwell Ehigiator and Mr. Mabia Okwudiri. They are facing trial on a two-count charge of conspiring among themselves to commit felony to wit demanding money with menace punishable under section 516 of the criminal code.
They were alleged to have demanded N10,000 bribe from the Catholic Bishop of Auchi Diocese, Bishop Gabriel Dunia. The suspects, however, pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to them and were granted bail in the sum of N100,000 and one surety in like sum who, the presiding magistrate, M.C Ojobo, said must be a civil servant resident in Benin.
Prof. Awanbor explained that with the conviction of the suspects, NABTEB had not only broken the jinx of unresolved examination malpractice court cases, but also set the pace in the quest for diligent prosecution of offenders, adding that the examination body was the first to diligently pursue the case of examination cheats from the point of arrest to conviction.
He said the Board would not relent in its bid to sustain its zero tolerance for examination malpractice.
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