Michael Babatunde
Reports by mainstream media about the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC arresting a MAPOLY student has been blatantly debunked by stakeholders of the institution.
Some online media and Newspapers reported of a cybercrime fraudster, Olalekan Oladapo Ogunremi, who claimed to be a student of MAPOLY, arrested in the Ibadan mop-out of cyber fraudsters.
The school Public relation officer, Yemi Ajibola in a statement affirmed that the school never run the programme claimed to be studied by the fraudster in question.
He added that a background check on the school data had no record of the fraudster adding that the closest to the name never completed the programme.
Ajibola explains, “Attention of the Management of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta has been drawn to reports of some online media and Newspapers of a cybercrime fraudster, Olalekan Oladapo Ogunremi, who claimed to be a student of MAPOLY.
“We hereby wish to state unequivocally that the convict is *NOT* our student.
“We also want to place on record that, we do not offer Mechanical Engineering in Higher National Diploma programme as allegedly claimed in the report.
“We did not have such name in our record but the closest details in our record to the published name is that of a student who got admission in 2014/2015 academic session for National Diploma programme and did not finish due to poor academic performance thereby, forfeited his studentship since 2017.
“The general public is requested to note that the culprit is not a student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta.”
Students of MAPOLY have since stormed media space such as twitter to backlash the EFCC and news media for misinformation. They also launched campaigns to save the image of the institution."