The Nigeria Police Force today paraded four operators of illegal
websites in the country. The Force Public Relations officer, Jimoh
Moshood, told newsmen that the suspects operated websites that claim to
be in possession of worked out solutions to different subjects for
students that wrote the just concluded WAEC examinations. The
suspects asked their victims to pay a certain amount of money in
accounts they provided in exchange for worked out solutions in any
subject. They were arrested following a tip-off. Among the suspects
paraded are:
i. Chijoke Onwuachu Modestus, a 300
level student of Computer Science Micheal Okpara University, Umudike who
was arrested at Umuiahia and confessed to have collected ₦400 per paper
from numerous candidates, to the tune of seventy thousand naira
(#70,000)
ii. 20 year old Samuel Odinaka
Onwurah who was arrested at Kutunku extension layout in Gwagwalada,
Abuja and confessed to have collected the sum of ninety thousand naira
(#90,000) from various victims.
iii. 30 year old Patrick Uchechukwu
Nwodo who was trailed and picked up at Abakpa, Nike in Enugu. He
confessed to have collected the sum of forty thousand naira (#40,000)
from unsuspecting victims.
iv. 20 year old Okon Effiong Joseph,
a 200 level student of Public Health Department University of Calabar,
who was arrested at Calabar. He has collected the sum of one hundred and
twenty thousand naira (#120,000) from different candidates.
Jimoh says the suspects would soon
be charged to court while effort is being intensified to arrest other
operators of illegal/rogue websites currently at large.
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