The Tinubu Media Volunteers (TMV) has backed the decision of the federal government to sack civil servants in ministries, departments, and agencies who obtained fake degrees from some private universities in the Benin Republic and Togo.
The TVM Chairman and Secretary Chukwudi Enekwechi, and Shedrach Sunday respectively said this on Sunday, adding that the move was in line with the anti-corruption posture of the President Bola Tinubu administration.
“We note with sadness that most of the universities in question do not have even the licence or accreditation from their host or originating countries.
“It is also reprehensible that some Nigerians will claim to have obtained academic degrees knowing the same to be false and manoeuvre their ways into the Nigerian civil service.
“For us, the question is what quality of service will they offer in their places of work? We want to state without equivocation that acquiring Golden Fleece should follow a rigorous process for which the academic environment is well-known,” said TMV.
They said unscrupulous Nigerians, in a bid to gain undue advantage in the public service, rushed to Benin Republic and Togo to acquire all kinds of fake degrees, sometimes within a space of six months or one year.
“We, therefore, applaud the decision to fire such degree holders by the federal government, as it falls within the purview of President Tinubu administration’s policy to fight corruption in all its ramifications.
“This is a clear indication that it is only a government that is concerned with the country’s quality of education and the future of our children that will address the problems of fake university degrees frontally.
“In our view, what the Tinubu administration has done is to sanitise our educational system and subject academic credentials to rigorous scrutiny and credibility,” continued the statement.
