The Rector of Federal College of Dental Technology and Therapy, Enugu, Dr John Emaimo, is definitely in trouble as the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission [ICPC] has zoomed in its searchlight on the institution.
A whistleblower, @PIDOMNIGERIA, had exposed it as a monumental den of “massive corruption” and made the evidence available to News Band.
After exposing the alleged massive ongoing corruption at the College reportedly perpetrated by the Rector, Dr. Emaimo and the Bursar, Mrs Egbeh Felicia, ICPC instructed her Anti-Corruption and Transparency (ACTU) unit in the school to investigate the allegation.
See the attached document below:
The bad news, however, is that the chairman of the ACTU in the college, Mr. Oladimeji Sikiru, is an alleged loyalist of the Rector, Emaimo, which is tantamount to the Rector being a judge in his own case.
Mr. Sikiru, according to school sources, was the Dean of Student Affairs of the school before he was forced out of office after a massive protest as students disgraced him, locking him up in his office during the protest in campus, which forced the Rector to replace him as Dean.
He has also come under the radar as the source reported that the Rector recommended him for the office of ACTU chairman “to do his dirty biddings of corruption cover-up”.
The whistleblower had, after investigating the Federal College, which it described as “the home of corruption, fraud and scam” and called on the government and independent bodies to go and verify.
According to him, invitations were sent to stakeholders over the issue, and a meeting took place, but the Rector ended up blaming others of corruption rather than himself.
The whistleblower charged the trio of Oladimeji Sikiru, John Emaimo and Egbeh Felicia, to do the right thing, by paying the teaching and non-teaching staff of the college to pay off all the allowances and arrears “that they diverted to their pockets”.
Failure to do so, he assured that part two of the report will follow with more damning evidence.
The evidence
Trouble started when some applicants and staff of the institution raised alarm revealing how they were scammed via corrupt and fraudulent admission racketeering, fake and non-existing admission, as well as promotion, allowance and salary manipulations with the Rector in charge.
The whistleblower reported that Dr. Emaimo, with intentions to scam unsuspecting students, kept offering admission into courses that the school either does not offer or is not accredited to offer.
See example of the fake admission letter attached on this tweet:
According to the document, Emaimo gave B-Tech on RADIOGRAPHY to some unsuspecting students, with non-existing affiliations to the Federal University of Technology (FUTO) and asked them to pay school fees of ₦145,000, admission and registration of ₦55,000, acceptance fee of ₦30,000, hostel fee of ₦45,000, faculty and department fee of ₦35,000, uniform and materials, etc.
In the long run, the applicants may have paid above ₦300,000.
Meanwhile, findings show that the courses the institution offers are as follows:
1. Dental Therapy
2 Dental Technology
3. Biomedical engineering
4. Dental Nursing
5. Public Health
6. Prosthetic and Othortics, as well as,
7. Social Work.
It was gathered the Biotechnology is illegal as only one set is ongoing.
To their shock and chagrin, however, after paying all the requested fees, the Rector tells the students to either switch to other available courses in the school or forget about the admission.
Consequently, many left the school in anguish and/or annoyance, while others were forced to accept courses they never applied for or intended to pursue.
Reports show that “they have been duping thousands of students who kept applying for their manufactured degree courses on Biotechnology, Radiography and Dental Nursing” which are either non-existent or unapproved courses.
“Dr John Emaimo and Mrs Egbeh Felicia’s fraudulent activities in the Federal College of Dental Technology and Therapy is so unprecedented,” lamented the source.
The source wrote: “The department was dissolved by the Rector late 2022, living the students in shambles. You can go and verify. From the above list, NBTE approved only 1, 2, 3, & 4. at ND and HND levels.
“NUC through FUTO affiliation approved 5, 6, (2 again at Degree level). No (7) Social Work is floating for the first graduates. We are yet to know who will issue them certificates to recognize them.
“The Rector has made a mess of a once prestigious institution. The last time there was accountability & sanity in that school, was under the previous Rector, Dr Mrs Kehinde B. Sofoluwe (KSC) PhD, Rector FCDT&T, Enugu 2008 – 2016, a retired Army Colonel.
“She is the last person to pay promotion arrears of both teaching and none teaching staff in that institution in 2016. But since Dr John Emaimo took over, he started his allowance & salary manipulations in the school. He fraudulently issued fake IPPIS numbers to both teaching & none teaching staff, & was cutting their monthly salaries, diverting their promotion arrears, and allowances with his inside collaborators at IPPIS.
He lied to them that he was migrating them to Tertiary Institution & created another number in addition to what IPPIS gave them. Since then nothing has worked. Double IPPIS numbers kept appearing on their fake payslips that is not emanating from the IPPIS Oracle but manipulated
by who they don’t know. This fraud was exposed when IPPIS officials came to the school for physical verification exercise.
The new IPPIS numbers Dr John Emaimo issued both teaching and non-teaching staff wasn’t recognized by the IPPIS system. It caused commotion in the school.
“It was their old abandoned IPPIS numbers that the system eventually recognized which exposed the fraud of Dr John Emaimo. But despite that, nothing changed. He killed the School Unions. They are totally toothless.
“He threatens anyone who dares to speak. They all work in fear. Promotion exercise is conducted every year, but implementation of the new promotion salary, could take up to 2 or 3 years.
“Dr John Emaimo will state it clearly in your promotion letter that despite the new promotion, don’t expect any promotion arrears. Daylight robbery. See:
“For 2 or 3 years, Dr John Emaimo and Egbeh Felicia will be taking the addition to your salary, and they will divert your promotion arrears into their personal pockets without you doing anything.
“Since 2017 till date nobody has been paid a dime in promotion arrears by Dr John.
“The school gets billions of Naira from federal government as allocation to run the school, but these criminals divert these monies into personal pockets.
“They have inside collaborators in IPPIS, who work hand in hand with the school authorities to manipulate the system.
“See example of the school’s annual budget:
“But they kept diverting legitimate monies of both teaching and none teaching staff with their people in IPPIS and their people in the ministry.
“I once exposed the illegalities at IPPIS, with their manipulation and padding of salaries, when i called out another institution Federal College of Land Resources Technology Owerri (FACOLART) previously. The house of representatives just two days ago, confirmed my claims.
“The thief Dr John Emaimo, who claims he is a professor from an unknown school in Togo, whose professorship has not been ratified by any Nigerian body, has been sacked by Tinubu, when he asked all heads of MDA’s to handover. But the scammer hid the letter and has been working.
“He is running from Enugu to Abuja, bribing every tom, dick and harry he knows, to help keep him in office. He has so much money to bribe anyone. Free & unaccounted funds at his disposal. @officialEFCC & @icpcnigeria should look into my claims. This man is a potential thief.
“More expose on Federal College of Dental Technology & Therapy Enugu to come. This is just part one. I will release more documents to indict Dr John Emaimo the fraudulent Rector of that institution, & Mrs Egbeh Felicia, the thieving Burser. I will not rest, until justice is done.”
Confirming the development, a tweep, @Tuskey042, said: “This is true. My sister got admission to study radiography but now studying public health.”
Presently, News Band learnt that he has the ears of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, and that the speaker is already calling for the National Universities Commision (NUC)’s accreditation for him.
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