It was reported that Ogunremi, who claimed to be an HND Mechanical Engineering student of the polytechnic, was found guilty of criminal impersonation and sentenced to six months in prison.
Justice Patricia Ajoku of the Federal High Court, Ibadan had reduced Ogunremi's one year jail term to six months, following an appeal by his lawyer that his client had missed two examination sessions owing to the criminal charge filed against him by the Ibadan zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
However, the Public Relations Officer of MAPOLY, Yemi Ajibola, in a statement said Ogunremi lied by attaching himself to the polytechnic; saying "we do not offer Mechanical Engineering in Higher National Diploma programme as allegedly claimed in the report." The statement reads: "Attention of the Management of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta has been drawn to reports of some online media and Newspapers of a cybercrime fraudster, Olalekan Oladapo Ogunremi, who claimed to be a student of MAPOLY.
We hereby wish to state unequivocally that the convict is not our student. We also want to place on record that, we do not offer Mechanical Engineering in Higher National Diploma programme as allegedly claimed in the report. We did not have such name in our record, but the closest details in our record to the published name is that of a student who got admission in 2014/2015 academic session for National Diploma programme and did not finish due to poor academic performance, thereby, forfeited his studentship since 2017 "The general public is requested to note that the culprit is not a student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta."
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