BY DAYO JOHNSON

AKURE-EIGHT Senior Secondary School SSS 3 students of Saint Peter’s Unity Secondary School, Akure, Ondo State have been stopped from writing the on-going WAEC Examinations and expelled by the Ondo State government for fraudulent activities.

The state government subsequently ordered their arrest and they may be charged to court for fraud.

 The State Education Commissioner, Dr Pius Osunyikanmi, said the present administration in the state would not allow miscreants to turn schools in the state to where criminals were bred.

 Dr Osunyikanmi noted that the affected students defrauded the state government by paying their school fees into the account of one of them after which they present fake duplicate tellers to the School for clearance.

He advised the parents to instill discipline into their children, warning that the state government had zero tolerance for such criminal activities .

Dr Osunyikanmi said government took the drastic action to serve as a deterrent to others.

Names of the students arrested include Adenuga Abiodun, Ewegbemi Tope, Imafidon Tope, Akinnawonu Nelson, Olorunusi Ayodeji, Ayinnuola Damola, Umeric Michael and Akindowa O.

 Vanguard finding revealed that one of the students mooted the ideal to others and after they were successful in the first attempt they invited more students to join in the fraudulent activities.

It was gathered that the initial number that started the fraudulent practice were three and it later increased to five and again rose to eight.