FUTA disowns suspected graduate robber

The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, says the claim by a suspected armed robber arrested by the Lagos State Police Command, Ifeoluwa Coker, that he was a graduate of the institution was false.

PUNCH Metro had reported on Thursday, July 17, that two of the suspects arrested by the state command for snatching cars at gunpoint, Ifeoluwa Coker and John Odu, identified themselves as a graduate of FUTA, and a Postgraduate Diploma holder from the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, respectively.

Coker had claimed that he studied Biology Education from FUTA.

However, a statement by the Head of Information, Protocol and Passages Unit, FUTA, Mr. Adegbenro Adebanjo, and dated Friday, July 18, said the claim by Coker was “false and spurious.”

Adebanjo said, “Our check at the Students’ Affairs Division revealed that Coker had never been registered as a student of FUTA and therefore was never a student or a graduate of our university.

“In any case, FUTA is a full-fledged university of Technology and has no school, department or faculty of education as claimed by the said Coker.”

Adebanjo said graduates of the institution were well-behaved and would never be involved in any criminal enterprise.

Source: Punch