NECO Sacks 19 Staff Over Certificate Forgery
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has sacked 19 staff from its service over certificate forgery.
A statement released and signed by the Council’s Head of Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez Sani revealed that a Staff Certificate Verification Committee constituted by the Management invited the staff with questionable credentials to appear before it, adding that after going through some interrogation, they confessed to the crime.
“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,” the statement revealed.
The statement also revealed that Governing Board had at its 17th Extra Ordinary meeting in November, 2019, approved the dismissal of 70 staff for Certificate forgery.
It added that the Certificate verification exercise which is on-going is aimed at sanitizing the system.
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