NECO Dismisses 70 Staff For Certificate Forgery – TheNigerialawyer

The Management of National Examinations Council (NECO) has
approved the dismissal of 70 staff from her services for
certificate forgery.

These dismissals are a sequel to a report submitted by a
Management Committee constituted to verify the certificate of
staff.

According to the management of NECO, the Certificate
Verification Committee carried out its assignment diligently by
inviting all staff with questionable credentials to appear before
it, during which some staff actually attested that their
certificates were fake.

The Committee also contacted the Schools and Institutions the
affected staff claimed to have attended and the Schools and
Institutions denied having certificated them. On completion of
their assignment, the Committee submitted its findings to NECO
Management which also forwarded the same to NECO Governing
Board.

At its 17th Extraordinary meeting, the Governing Board vetted
the report and approved the dismissal of the affected staff.

“The Council under the able leadership of the Acting
Registrar/Chief Executive, Mr. Abubakar Gana has zero-tolerance for
corruption and is poised to sanitize the system as espoused by
President Muhammadu Buhari led administration.

The dismissal of the 70 staff is the first phase in the series
of the on-going staff certificate verification exercise in the
Council,” a statement from NECO read.