Education: Kwara college uncovers 2,000 fake certificates —Provost

Last updated on September 11th, 2021 at 02:41 pm

The authorities of the Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin have discovered about 2,000 fake National Certificate of Education purportedly issued in the name of the institution.

Some of the certificates were tendered as genuine in government agencies and establishments for employment, The PUNCH was told.

The Provost of the College, Prof. Yusuf AbdulRaheem, who disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Ilorin at the weekend alleged that some staff of the institution were responsible for issuance of the counterfeit results.

AbdulRaheem informed that the college had detailed the Department of State Services to trail one of the suspects, who he identified as a dismissed staff of the institution.

He stated that the institution had requested the state Ministry of Education, State Universal Basic Education Board, as well as state Teaching Service Commission, to undertake verification of their staff to ascertain the genuineness of the certificates being paraded.

The don pointed out that the institution was able to fish out several fake certificates issued in its name during the revalidation exercise. “More than 2000 fake results are outside that were given to students from this school.

We went to SUBEB, Teaching Service Commission, Ministry of Education and asked them to do verification of results.

Many of them have come back and we have discovered that many of the results were fake. They were produced by our own people here. “Many of my staff were taken to the Department of State Services because we don’t have a problem with our lecturers. It is now left for those who are holding the certificates to own up.

“But we thank God. If you go to anybody now even for assistance, they will tell you, if it is not within the confines of the law, we will not do it. Our lecturers are now going to their classes and the students are happy,” the Provost said.

(ThePunch)