Buhari spits fire, threatens to deal with politicians with fake certificates
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- President Muhammadu Buhari has threatened to deal with any member of APC with fake certificate
- He also frowned at the spate at which public servants and individuals of questionable wealth were being celebrated
- He attributed failure of value system to spate of examination and cheating malpractices among public servants
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President
Muhammadu Buhari has expressed concern over the menace of examination
malpractices and fake certificates in the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari
Punch
reports that the president also condemned the spate at which public
servants and individuals of questionable wealth were being celebrated
with alumni recognitions, honorary degrees, chieftaincy titles and
sometimes higher religious titles.
According to him, cheating in examination
and attainment of fake certificates among Nigerians had become a normal
thing because of collapse of values in the society.
President Muhammadu Buhari
Buhari
represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), expressed this view
on Tuesday March 21, in Abuja, during the 65th Annual Council Meeting of
the West African Examinations Council with the theme, “65 years of commitment to excellence in educational assessment.”
He said: “Today
the attainment of wealth, power or educational influence is the mark of
success which is not necessarily a bad thing except we are no longer
concerned with the process of attaining success.”
Senator Dino Melaye
“The
end it appears today justifies the means which explains why cheating in
examinations and fake certificates simply do not generate the sort of
outrage that such conduct would have generated years ago.
“Public servants and many in the
private sectors who have unexplainable wealth are celebrated in one form
or the other, alumni recognitions, honorary degrees, chieftaincy titles
and even higher religious titles.
“Often,
cheating is with the collusion of parents and teachers. This only
reflects the failure of values in our larger society. Educational policy
within that milieu of collapsed value failure is a totally different
type of task when values in society have collapsed.
When
values in the society have been upturned, the role of the policy maker
is completely different from when values are maintained by and large.”
The
President said Nigerians are no longer concerned about the process of
attaining success because the end justifies the means for them.
Such collapse in value, he explained, has made it difficult for policy makers to effect change in the society.
Buhari therefore called for a change in education curricula to reflect modern teaching methods.
President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice, Yemi Osinbajo
He said: “It
is much more important today to emphasise also how we should teach
which will obviously impact how we should examine, what questions we
should be asking and what we should be looking for in our students. But
regarding what we should teach, it is my respective view, more important
now than ever before to redefine success.”
It
will be recalled that a Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial
District at the Senate, Dino Melaye, has been accused of not graduating
from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and the school authority has also
allegedly confirmed that he never finished from the institution.
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