Banker Arrested for Forging of WASCE and University Results

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old broker, Daniel Makanjuola, for utilizing a cloned West African Senior School Certificate and Lagos State University's announcement of result to secure vocation at the Wema Bank Plc, Marina branch, on the Lagos Island.

The police said Makanjuola had paraded himself as a degree holder in promoting with Second Class, Upper Division, before his capture.

He was likewise said to have tendered a fashioned National Youth Service Corps release testament and a reference letter to the bank. He guaranteed to have acquired the letter from United Bank for Africa, his implied previous working environment.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspect, who hails from Ijero Local Government Area in Ekiti State, had joined the bank in 2013, preceding he was sacked in July 2015 after the reports were affirmed to be fake.

It was assembled that the false demonstration was found after the administration sent a letter to the UBA to confirm the validity of the reference letter. The UBA was said to have precluded learning from securing Makanjuola and the letter.

Our reporter learnt that the disclosure provoked the bank to compose West African Examinations Council and LASU, which likewise repudiated the outcomes. The suspect was arrested after the case was accounted for at the Lion Building Police Station.

The bank's Public Relations Officer, Emela Esohe, said Makanjuola claimed up to the demonstration before a disciplinary advisory group.

The suspect, in an announcement he made to the police, likewise admitted to the wrongdoing and clarified how he got the manufactured declarations.

He said he turned to the demonstration to lighten the neediness in his family, including that it was one Vincent who helped him to get the reference letter.

He said, "I am really a National Diploma holder. I secured the fake WASCE and LASU results, utilizing a web crawler and CorelDraw application. I filtered a NYSC authentication and utilized a few applications to alter it. I did it to put a conclusion to the affliction of my poor gang. I am the main child of my dad. I need the power to be caring with my case. I was just attempting to carry on with a superior life."

A police prosecutor, Inspector I. Okeke, summoned Makanjuola at a Tinubu Magistrate's Court on three numbers of falsification.

The charges read to a limited extent, "That you, Daniel Makanjuola at some point in September 2013, at Wema Bank, Marina, Lagos Island, in the Lagos Magisterial District, did fashion West Africa Senior School Certificate, dated December, 2005 with applicant number, 5250209357 and endorsement number, ASSCP 3841537.

"That you produced notice of definite year examination result 2008/2009 scholarly session from LASU with reference number, LASU/E&R/405, dated March 11, 2010 and use it to secure work at Wema Bank Plc."

The blamed argued not blameworthy to the charges before the managing officer, Mr. A. Adefulire.

Adefulire conceded him to safeguard in the whole of N100,000 with two sureties in like aggregate. He suspended the case till October 22, 2015.


-Punchng