The Inspector General of Police (IG) on Wednesday
opened trial of
Senator Ademola Adeleke and four others in an alleged
examination malpractice with revelations by witnesses that they did not see the
Senator in the examination hall during the 2017 National Examination Council
(NECO) exams.
Two witnesses called by the police, Buhari Moshood and
Isamotu
Funmilayo, who were supervisors in the examination at
Ojo-Aro
Community Grammar School Centre in Osun State denied
seeing the senator in the exam hall on the election day.
Led in evidence by counsel to the police, Simon Lough,
the first prosecution witness, Buhari Moshood, informed the Federal High Court
in Abuja that on June 21, 2017, while acting as supervisor, he saw five matured
men among the students billed to participate in the NECO exams.
The witness, who claimed to have been a teacher for 35
yearstold
justice Inyang Ekwo, that he can only identify Adeleke
Sikiru
(2nddefendant) among the five matured men who were
participating in
the EnglishLanguage Paper that he supervised.
The witness, who identified an exam paper bearing the
name of Adeleke
Ademola insisted that he did not see the defendant on
the seat in the
exam hall and that he did not challenged the adult
persons in
the examination hall because it was not his duty to do
so.
Under cross examination by Dr. Alex Izinyon SAN,
counsel to
Senator Adeleke, the witness said he will be surprised
to see NECO issuing certificate to anybody who did not sit for exams. He
admitted that the identities of all the students in their identity cards were
in order and that there was no police presence in the school to ask for the
person of Adeleke.
Moshood also admitted that the examination went well
and that no candidate can impose himself on the school for the purpose of the examination.
Answering a question, the witness admitted that he cannot know all the students
who sat for the examination and insisted
that there was nocheating on the exams day and that
the exam was free
and fair.
The second witness, Isamotu Funmilayo, who claimed to
havebeen a
teacher for 13 years, in her own evidence told the
court that
shesupervised English Literature Paper on July 17,
2017, and that she
saw twomatured men in the exam hall but can only
identify Adeleke
Sikiru, whom shesaid sat quietly with his exams
papers.
Under cross examination by Izinyon, the witness
deniedseeing Ademola
Adeleke in the exam hall. She further told the court
that the resultof
the exam belonging to Senator Adeleke, where he scored
C5 was shown to
herby the police at the State Investigation and
Intelligence Bureau,
Oshogbo, OsunState.
The second witness further told the court that the
authoritiesof the
school have duties to register students for the exams
and that the
examsshe supervised was most peaceful and that there
was no exam
malpracticethroughout the period of her supervision.
Meanwhile, Justice Ekwo has adjourned further trial
tillApril 2, 3 and
4 at the instance of the prosecutor, who claimed that
he hasbeen
deployed out of Abuja for the 2019 general election.
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