FG SET TO FLUSH OUT FAKE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS – TAHIR MAMMAN
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Prof. Tahir Mamman, the minister of education, has vowed to root out those using phony certificates in both public and private organizations.
Mamman disclosed this during a speech in Abuja on Friday after receiving the Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling report from Prof. Jubrila Amin, the committee chairman.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the minister of education established an Inter-Ministerial Committee on January 9 to investigate the truthfulness of claims of degree racketeering in private colleges, both domestic and international.
The committee was tasked with examining how any MDAs or their representatives assisted in the identification and acquisition of the disputed false credentials.
Prof. Mamman, who expressed sadness over what has been uncovered during the investigations, said that the ministry would work with relevant agencies to sanitise the education sector and rid it of any fake tendencies.
“We can’t afford to have the integrity of our education soar by some few persons.
“It is possible that some are carrying fake certificates in public and private organisations who needs to be flushed out. This report is a product of a thorough investigation.
“It is sad that someone who should come out from a Nigerian institution with a 2:1 or 2:2 is now parading an international certificate of first class.
“The ministry is determined to take steps to sanitise the system,” he said.
He pledged to take decisive role to ensure standards were enshrined in the system saying that ‘we can’t afford to let down our country when it comes to standards’.
He called for more universities in the country, saying that more universities to train PhD holders would help a lot rather than Nigerians going outside in search of certificates while ending up getting fake certificates.
Tahir Mamman, the minister of education, has vowed to root out those using phony certificates in both public and private organizations.
Mamman disclosed this during a speech in Abuja on Friday after receiving the Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling report from Prof. Jubrila Amin, the committee chairman.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the minister of education established an Inter-Ministerial Committee on January 9 to investigate the truthfulness of claims of degree racketeering in private colleges, both domestic and international.
The committee was tasked with examining how any MDAs or their representatives assisted in the identification and acquisition of the disputed false credentials.
“People go and get fake degrees and we have been to those countries and we know what a proper degree looks like, we know what the fake one looks like.
“We have given it to the ministry to scrutinise anyone presenting a certificate from those institutions and anything else is fake.
” It is up to the ministry to find out people with fake certificates and deal with them in whatever way they derm fit,” he said
He, therefore, urged the National Universities Commission (NUC) to pay more attention to institutions offering part time or sandwich programmes so we don’t have a repeat of 2017 saga of centres offering unaccredited courses.
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