Kaduna State Government has dismissed 233 teachers for presenting fake certificates.
Chairman of the Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (KADSUBEB), Tijjani Abdullahi, disclosed this in a press briefing in Kaduna on Thursday.
He said the decison was part of the board’s “continuous quest to improve standards in public basic education schools.”
“As part of its responsibility to ensure that all teachers actually have the qualifications they presented, the board launched a certificate verification exercise in April 2021,” he said.
He said the board has verified 451 certificates by contacting the institutions that awarded the certificates.
“Nine of the 13 institutions contacted have responded, as at Thursday,” he said.
Abadullahi said “the responses from the institutions show that 233 teachers presented fake certificates. This represents 51% of the 451 certificates on which responses have been received from the awarding institutions.”
“One institution disowned 212 of these 233 fake certificates,” he said.
“The board will dismiss the 233 teachers who presented these fake certificates, while their files will be forwarded to the Ministry of Justice to initiate prosecution for forgery. The Board will continue to check the integrity of the certificates presented by teachers to ensure that this critical profession is not devalued by impostors.”
He explained that as part of our duty of transparency, the names of the 233 teachers found to have presented fake certificates will be uploaded on the website of the Kaduna State Government today.
