Following the suspension of accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates from Benin Republic and Togo, the Federal Government has said the sanction would be extended to more countries like Uganda, Kenya and Niger Republic.
Speaking on a live television programme Minister of Education Tahir Mamman said government will extend the dragnet to countries like Uganda, Kenya and Niger
We will not stop at the suspension of certificates from Togo and Benin Republic alone. We are going to extend the suspension to other countries where such institutions operate.
An undercover journalist had detailed how he acquired a degree from a university in Benin Republic less than two months and in fact, deployed for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
The Federal Government 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.
Mamman also said students who patronize such institutions are not victims but criminals. “I have no sympathy for such people. Instead, they are part of the criminal chain that should be arrested,” the minister said on Wednesday.
He added that security agents will go after those with fake certificates from foreign countries already using them to secure opportunities in Nigeria.
