The National
Examinations Council (NECO) has dismissed no fewer than 70 staff for alleged
certificate forgery.
The approval for the
sack of the affected staff was made at NECO’s 17th extra-ordinary meeting of
the Governing Board after vetting a report by a verification committee set up
by the management.
The decision was part
of a statement signed by the Head of Information and Public Relations Division,
Azeez Sani in Minna.
The exam body said
that the dismissal of the staff was as a result of a report submitted by a
committee constituted to verify the certificates of staff by the management of
NECO.
The statement said “The
certificate Verification Committee carried out its assignment diligently by
inviting all staff with questionable credentials to appear before it, during
which some staff actually attested that their certificates were fake,”.
“The Committee also
contacted the Schools and Institutions the affected staff claimed to have
attended and the Schools and Institutions denied having certificated them.”
It added that the sack
is the first phase in the series of the on-going staff certificate verification
exercise in the Council.
