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Bogus Education Officer jailed

Mar 15, 2011 News

A man who infiltrated the Golden Grove Secondary School, East Coast Demerara, and actually took over the running of the administration of the institution for almost two weeks has been jailed for six months.
The man, Collis Akeem Peters, also known as Collis Duncan and Collis Dos Santos, 21, of Inner Bagotville, Canal No. 1, West Bank Demerara and Enterprise, Leguan, Essequibo River, was charged yesterday with three counts of Obtaining Money by False Pretence and three counts of Assault.
He appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Cove & John Magistrate’s Court where he pleaded guilty to the assault charges.
He was sentenced to two months imprisonment on each charge, which the magistrate ordered to run consecutively.
However the man pleaded not guilty to the other charges and is to reappear in court on March16, 2011.
This newspaper was able to ascertain that more than 50 students claimed that they had given him $300 each to buy school badges since he had wanted every student to be wearing them.
However they never received any badge.
The man was arrested last Thursday after officials at the school became suspicious of him and called in the police.
But this was only after the man manipulated the school administrators for almost two weeks by claiming that he was the Deputy Education Officer of Region Two who was sent by Chief Education Officer, Olato Sam, to look into administrative matters at the school.
During the two-week period he was there, the 22-year-old man had begun to interfere with the school rules and he even changed the school hours from 8:30hrs-14:30 hrs to 09:00 hrs-15:00 hrs, and although this adversely affected the schedule of many students they complied, because he was “very strict” in administering “his rules”.
Sources in the school revealed that the imposter had demanded to see students’ School Based Assessments (SBAs) and even began administering corporal punishment to students.
Teachers were suspicious of the man’s presence and his role in the school from the start but many of them were intimidated by him.
Their suspicions climaxed when teachers observed several irregularities in his spelling whenever he was making notes.
But what they should have done first ended up being the last thing they did as they finally sought to verify from an official at the Ministry of Education if the man was indeed sent by them.
The entire school was shocked when the official denied any knowledge of the man. The Cove and John Police Station was immediately contacted.

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