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From Fred Ezeh, Abuja
Federal Government has hinted that it may extend the suspension of degree accreditation and validation to Kenya, Uganda and some other countries as part of effort to clean the rot in the system.
The decision was, perhaps, a fallout of the recent media report by an undercover journalist in which he obtained degree certificate from Cotonou-based university in six weeks and mobilized for NYSC.
Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, said in a Channels TV interview, that government was concerned about the development, and was committed to cleaning the rot in the system and punishing those involved in the racketeering.
The Minister described the people that had participated in the school as criminals who deserve to be prosecuted. “No student or Nigerian has any business going to patronise such place. I have no sympathy for such person. Instead, they are part of a criminal chain that should be arrested.
“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. Once we do that, they are criminals and you know there is no time frame to criminality.
“We will trace them. As long as we can lay our hands on their institutions and they are right here with us, certainly, the security agencies will go after them because they are criminals.”
