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Bogus Education Officer busted again

Sep 29, 2011 News

Police on the Essequibo Coast have apprehended a man purporting to be a District Education Officer from Georgetown.
According to the police, Collis Akeem Peters, from Enterprise, Leguan, was apprehended by police on Tuesday, at the Charity Secondary School, where he was engaging teachers at that school in a lecture.
Peters aroused the suspicion of a teacher at the school, who subsequently informed members of the Education Department at Anna Regina.
The Education officials later visited the Charity Secondary School and after conducting investigation on Peters, found out that he was the said man who visited schools in the country pretending to be an education officer.
Peters, the police said, was using the name Malcolm Johnson.
He had 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.
He was been jailed for six months on March 14, last, on three counts of Obtaining Money by False Pretence and three counts of Assault.
Collis Akeem Peters, also went by the name Collis Duncan and Collis Dos Santos, of Inner Bagotville, Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara and Enterprise, Leguan, Essequibo River.
The man was arrested after officials at the Golden Grove school became suspicious of him and called in the police.
But this was only after the man manipulated the school’s 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.

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