Police nab racketeer for collecting N400,000 from admission seeker

The Delta State Police Command detectives on plain clothes have arrested a nurse (name withheld), and member of staff of a private hospital in Warri, Delta State, over admission racketeering into the Delta State School of Nursing.

The nurse collected the sum of N400,000 to secure admission for a forthcoming male student for the March entrance examinations into the School of Nursing, Warri.

It was gathered that the forthcoming student lodged a disapproval to the Director, Nursing Department of the Ministry of Health following the failure of the alleged racketeer to secure admission for him.

It was learnt the matter was reported to the Health Ministry which made the nurse in the company of the complainant with the sum of N100,000 agreed as payment for the admission between the official and the racketeering nurse go to Asaba.

The suspect was apprehended by plain clothes policemen after being recorded on tape.

Dr. Mordi Ononye,Delta State Commissioner for Health, who confirmed the incident, warned admission seekers to be careful of racketeers who engage in collecting money from seeking students by telling fake promises of admission into the state’s schools of nursing.

According to the commissioner, “we received a complaint from a prospecting student who applied and sat for the entrance examination in March this year into the School of Nursing Warri. He couldn’t make the required score and gave a nurse four N400, 000 to get admitted.”

He explained that the nurse worked in a private hospital in Warri, collected the said amount with a promise to assist the prospecting student who is a male get admission into the School.

However, when the said nurse could not meet up with her promise, the student reported the matter to the Director of Nursing Department in the Ministry.