The Governing Board of the National Examinations
Council (NECO) has approved the dismissal of 19 staff from her service
for certificate forgery. According to the examination body in
statement signed by its Head, Information and Public Relations
Division, Azeez Sani, the management constituted a Staff Certificate
Verification Committee that carried out its assignment with invitation
of some staff with questionable credentials to appear before it, during
which the affected staff attested that their certificates were forged.
The
statement read, “) The committee also contacted the Schools and
Institutions which the affected staff claimed to have attended and the
Schools and Institutions denied having certificated them.”At
its 52nd Regular meeting, the Governing Board of the Council vetted the
report of the Certificate Verification Committee and approved the
dismissal of the affected staff.”
It would be
recalled that the Governing Board had at its 17th Extra Ordinary meeting
in November, 2019, also approved the dismissal of 70 staff for
Certificate forgery.The Certificate verification exercise which is on-going is aimed at sanitizing the system.
