Management of Abia State University has approved the rustication of a 500-level Law Student of the University, Onwuka, Chikezie Princewill for one academic session, 2021/2022, for falsification of his academic transcript, claiming to have graduated from the University, while he still has outstanding courses to pass.

A staff of the Institute for Computer Studies (ICS), Mr. Bestman Ugorji, has also been suspended from the University for six (6) months, with half salary, for complicity in the fake result displayed by the student in the social media. Management further directed that he should be posted out of the Institute on resumption after the suspension.

Management considered the findings and recommendations of the Panel which investigated the allegation against the student and reiterated its determination to ensure transparency and credibility of degree certificates issued by the University, as any established case of corruption, forgery and other vices will not go unpunished..