The Imo State University (IMSU) Public Relation Officer, Nze Ralph Njoku Obi has defended the image and reputation admission racketeering going on in the school.
The IMSU PRO was responding to a news story by an Owerri based newspaper (not the Imo Trumpeta) there are allegations of sharp practices trailing the recently released results of the school aptitude tests, as well as allegations that some lecturers of the school are illegally facilitating the transfer of students from other institutions to IMSU due to the free education of the state government.
In an exclusive interview with the Imo Trumpeta, the IMSU image maker stated that it was not true that the recently released results of the Post UME was tampered by anybody. He explained that what happened was that some candidates made needless errors while registering for and writing the exams, even after they had been giving guidelines on what to do. This, he said, made their results not to come out.
He refuted the allegation that there exists a syndicate ring in the school who are demanding as much as N200, 000 from the postUMEcandidates in order to bring out their Post UME scores from the V.C office and described the story as totally untrue.
The IMSU PRO described the last Post UME conducted by the school as the freest and most transparent in the history of the school, and accused some journalists of being sponsored by some unknown elements to carry stories that tarnish the image of the school.
He promised that the University will still look into the issue of the results of some candidates not coming out and advised the candidates not to be deceived by those dishing out false information.
On the allegation that some lecturers in the school are illegally facilitating the transfer of students from other institutions who wants to enjoy the free education promised by the state governor to the school on the payment of money as high as N250, 000, Nze Njoku Obi described it as baseless. He stated that there is no way students can be transferred to the school, as the school is now in its second semester, while students are only transferred in the beginning of the first semester.
He stated that the newspaper that carried the story did a one sided story as they did not get the reaction of the school authorities and denied that he ever refused to meet the reporter of the same paper when he came.
Nze Njoku Obi advised journalists to verify their information before publishing their stories as well as to ensure that they are not used by some people to paint the institution black.
