Olufemi Atoyebi, AbujaNot less than 721 members of staff of Federal Government agencies secured employment using forged academic certificates between 2015 and 2018, The PUNCH learnt on Wednesday. At the end of the exercise, the commission was able to verify academic certificates of 40,808 staff of the six Federal Government agencies. According to the figure obtained by our correspondent, 11,996 certificates had been verified by the commission, while 721 certificates were found to have been forged. The source said, “ICPC was contacted to verify the authenticity of academic and professional certificates of staff at the six FG agencies. Some of the certificates have been returned but we have 721 certificates verified to have been forged.

Source: Punch June 19, 2019 23:37 UTC