After the suspension of accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates from Benin Republic and Togo, the Nigerian Government has revealed that the suspension would be extended to other countries like Uganda, Kenya and Niger Republic.
This revelation was made by the country’s Minister for Education, Tahir Mamman, during Channels Television’s Politics Today recently.
Mamman said: “We are not going to stop at just Benin and Togo. We are going to extend the dragnet to countries like Uganda, Kenya, even Niger here where such institutions have been set up.”
Recall that an undercover journalist detailed how he bagged a degree from a university in Benin Republic in less than two months and got deployed for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
The Government immediately suspended accreditation of certificates from Benin Republic and Togo and launched a probe which according to Mamman should submit its report in three months.
Also, Mamman said students who patronize these institutions are not victims but criminals.
He said: “I have no sympathy for such people. Instead, they are part of the criminal chain that should be arrested.”
He added that security agents will pluck out those with fake certificates from foreign countries already using them to get opportunities in Nigeria.
