The Unbiased Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC) on Tuesday evening knowledgeable that it had commenced investigation right into a six-week diploma awarded by a college in Cotonou, Benin Republic, to a Nigerian undercover Reporter.
The Cotonou college, Ecole Superieure de Gestion et de Applied sciences (ESGT), based on an investigative report performed and printed on December 30, 2023 by DAILY NIGERIAN, awarded a level to undercover Reporter, Audu Umar, who subsequently used the mentioned diploma to register for the necessary Nationwide Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
With a purpose to confirm particulars of the alleged fraudulent act, the ICPC, based on a information launch signed by its spokesperson, Mrs Azuka Ogugua, had commenced investigation with a gathering conveyed by its chairman, Dr Musa Adamu Aliyu SAN, with the reporter.
Dialogue on the assembly held on the fee’s headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday, the spokesperson acknowledged, centred on the alleged corrupt practices in speedy diploma issuance on the Cotonou college with a view to deepening the investigation and provoke related actions.
“To confirm particulars and transfer past hypothesis, ICPC Chairman Dr Musa Adamu Aliyu, SAN, convened a crucial assembly at this time on the ICPC headquarters in Abuja with a reporter from a information outlet.
“They mentioned the outlet’s December thirtieth report on alleged corrupt practices in speedy diploma issuance at a Cotonou college, aiming to deepen the investigation and provoke related actions,” Ogugua acknowledged.
She additional acknowledged that ICPC’s probe of the alleged corrupt follow would rigorously study the networks and people engaged within the malpractices in an effort to restore and protect the integrity of the nation’s instructional system.
“The investigation into Ecole Superieure de Gestion et de Applied sciences (ESGT) in Cotonou reveals a regarding state of affairs the place levels are allegedly awarded in as little as six weeks, bypassing customary tutorial procedures like utility, registration, coursework, and examinations.
“In response to those crucial allegations, the ICPC is embarking on a radical investigation.
“This probe will rigorously study the networks and people engaged in these malpractices, with the target of restoring and preserving the integrity of our instructional system,” Ogugua additional acknowledged.
In accordance with her, the anti-corruption fee would collaborate with related home and worldwide our bodies to collectively consider the legitimacy of educational {qualifications} procured from abroad establishments, particularly these highlighted within the DAILY NIGERIAN investigative report.
“Moreover, the Fee will interact in a synergistic collaboration with related home and worldwide our bodies to collectively consider the legitimacy of educational {qualifications} procured from abroad establishments, particularly these highlighted within the investigative report.
Whereas soliciting cooperation of all within the probe, the ICPC spokesperson asserted that Nigerians can work collectively in direction of a future the place the credibility of the nation’s instructional {qualifications} is unimpeachable.
“The ICPC calls upon all stakeholders within the instructional and governmental sectors to affix fingers on this crucial endeavor.
“Collectively, we are able to work in direction of a future the place the credibility of our instructional {qualifications} is unimpeachable, and the place corruption finds no refuge.”
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