The Federal Government has reiterated it’s desire l go after individuals with fake university certificates in the country.
The Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, said this at an event in Abuja.
According to him, there would be transformation in the education sector with the unveiling of a 13-pillar roadmap.
The minister said for proper planning to be done in the sector, especially from a basic level, it has become necessary to build a reliable and authentic database that would promote skills acquisition and development and reduce to the nearest minimum, the number of out-of-school children.
Earlier in January, the minister had said security agents would go after Nigerians with fake certificates from foreign countries already using them to secure opportunities in the country.
Mamman had described such individuals as criminals and not victims.
“I have no sympathy for such people. Instead, they are part of the criminal chain that should be arrested,” the minister had said.
The minister had also said the Federal Government would suspend degree certificates from more countries like Uganda, Kenya and the Niger Republic.
An undercover journalist had detailed how he acquired a degree from a university in Benin Republic under two months and in fact, deployed for the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC.
The Federal Government had immediately suspended accreditation of certificates from the two francophone West African nations and launched a probe which the minister said should submit its report in three months.
Fake Certificate: FG Vows To Go After Perpetrators
