Friday January 5, 2024 – Kenyans now risk being banned from working in Nigeria over allegations of possessing fake academic papers.
This is after the Nigerian Government announced that it was
halting the evaluation of degrees from Benin Republic and Togo.
Following the suspension which affected 45 universities in
the two nations, Nigeria added that it would be extending the suspension to
Kenya, Uganda and Niger.
This was communicated by Nigerian Education Minister Tahir
Mamman who vowed to clean the education system in his country.
The sanctions were instituted after an investigative
journalist acquired a degree from a university in the Benin Republic after
studying for less than 60 days.
Immediately after earning the degree, he used the
certifications to apply and get deployed for the National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC).
“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,” Mamman announced.
He explained that the reason for extending the suspension to
Kenya and other countries was to weed out certificates from rogue
institutions.
“If along the line, we can trace that there are people
already in the system.”
“For instance, if a particular institution or operator has
been operating, say in the last 10 years, we will check if we can get records
of Nigerians who attended that institution," the Education Minister explained
how Nigeria was tackling the case of fake certificates.
An investigation showed that Nigerians were acquiring
doctored academic papers from foreign countries, among them Kenya, and used
them to acquire job opportunities back home.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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