The Minister of Schooling, Tahir Mamman has stated safety brokers will go after Nigerians with faux faculty certificates from international nations.
Talking in an interview with Channels TV, Mamman stated anybody in possession of a faux certificates is a legal and never a sufferer.
“I’ve no sympathy for such folks. As a substitute, they’re a part of the legal chain that ought to be arrested,” the minister stated sternly. If alongside the road, we are able to hint that there are folks already within the system. As an illustration, if a selected establishment or operator has been working, say within the final 10 years, we are going to verify if we are able to get information of Nigerians who attended that establishment.
As soon as we do this, they’re criminals and you recognize there isn’t a timeframe to criminality. We’ll hint them. So long as we are able to lay our arms on their establishments and they’re proper right here with us, definitely, the safety companies will go after them as a result of they’re criminals,” Mamman stated when requested what can be accomplished to Nigerians with faux international certificates already inside the system.
The minister additionally stated the Federal Authorities would droop diploma certificates from extra nations like Uganda, Kenya and the Niger Republic.
“We aren’t going to cease at simply Benin and Togo. We’re going to prolong the dragnet to nations like Uganda, Kenya, even Niger right here the place such establishments have been arrange.”
An undercover journalist had detailed how he acquired a level from a college in Benin Republic underneath two months and in reality, deployed for the Nationwide Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
The Federal Authorities had suspended instantly suspended accreditation of certificates from the 2 francophone West African nations and launched a probe which the minister stated ought to submit its report in three months.