The prominent civil Rights advocacy group – HUMAN RIGHTS WRITERS
ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (HURIWA) has taken exception to the continuous claims by
a politician in Anambra state Dr. Obinna Uzoh that senator Ifeanyi Ubah who
represents Anambra south in the National Assembly parades a fake National
Examination Council (NECO) certificate even against recent findings by it
through a response to a FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST HURIWA made to NECO in
Minna.
HURIWA also express consternation that the hierarchy of the
National Examination Council whose reputation is being rubbished by the
persistent claim that it issued a dud certificate to a serving Senator, it has
not bothered to officially address Nigerians on this worrying development which
may adversely affect the global reputation of the certificates it issue to
candidates.
The Rights group stated that it was disingenuous that
politicians play partisan politics with serious issues that can be interpreted
as destroying the corporate image of institutions established by law and
empowered to conduct examination for students just as the Rights group said if
such tendencies continue and not corrected by the institutions whose corporate
reputation are demolished through innuendos and media attacks, then the waning
image of Nigeria globally could escalate and certificates that originate from
Nigeria maybe rejected in the civilized societies.
HURIWA has therefore given the National Examination Council 76
hours ultimatum to respond to the persistent allegations on the certificate
scam and put an end to the media sensationalism or it would be assumed that it
has something to hide and therefore it's reputation may be rubbished.
"NECO must speak up even after it has responded to official FOI REQUEST
there is the need to brief Nigerians on the status of the certificate it issued
Senator Ifeanyi Ubah in view of the fact that Dr. Obinna Uzor who approached a
court and got a pronouncement contradicting NECO's response to our FREEDOM OF
INFORMATION REQUEST has even after this unambiguous confirmation and
verification of the certificate of Ifeanyi Ubah has continued to raise fresh
posers on the validity of the same certificate."
“As a platform that champions the human rights of all citizens,
we are disturbed by the trend of politics that have become fashionable in
Anambra state whereby everything is held in disdain and profanity even when it
will only take such political actors little efforts to adopt law-based means to
seek for information from such institutions. It took us just less tgab a week
to get a response to our FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST so why wouldn't
Dr. Obinna Uzor approach NECO to ascertain the veracity and source of the
certificate instead of persistently dwell in sensational media warfare. ”
The Rights group in the statement jointly endorsed by the
National coordinator Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the National Media Affairs
Director Miss Zainab Yusuf stated that it was wrong for the politician Dr.
Obinna Uzoh to continue to make such a monumental allegation even when it
(HURIWA) had officially been told by NECO that indeed the certificate paraded
by Senator Ifeanyi Ubah is genuine.
“We call on the management of NECO to step in and ensure that
their good corporate reputation as a credible examination council is not continuously
messed up in the muddy water of politics. We expect the body to officially step
in and address the whole of Nigerians and clear her good image from these
unwarranted political attacks."
"If the claim is that the National Examination Council lied
in the official response to our freedom of information request in which it told
us that senator Ifeanyi Ubah has genuine certificate, then we may consider
suing them if they fail to within 78 hours address the continuous allegation
against them by the Anambra politician.”
HURIWA
had recently told journalists as follows: "Gentlemen, in our possession is
a letter from NECO which confirms that the CERTIFICATE tendered by Senator
Ifeanyi Ubah is authentic.
In a
letter with the particulars as follows NECO/R/LGS/20/003, dated 23rd January,
2020, NECO was tasked to respond to as follows: Application for the
authentication of NECO Certificate and Statement of Result of candidate No.
31474672FC: Ubah Ifeanyi Patrick of June 2003: No. 303865920.
The
NECO examination council wrote thus:
“I am
directed to acknowledge receipt of your letter on the above subject matter
dated 19th January, 2020 and to reply as stated infra.”
“We
hereby authenticate that the facts as stated in the statement of result of a
June/July 2003 (Appendix 1 of your letter) bearing the following details are
correct.”
CANDIDATE
NAME: UBAH IFEANYI PATRICK
REGISTRATION
NUMBER: 31474672FC
EXAM
YEAR: 2003
EXAM
TYPE: SSCE INT.
CENTRE
NUMBER: 020020
CENTRE
NAME: CARDOSO HIGH SCHOOL, AJEROMI/IFELODUN
S/N
SUBJECT
GRADE
REMARK
1. English
Language
C6
CREDIT
2. Mathematics
C6 CREDIT
3. Biology
F9 FAIL
4. Government
C6
CREDIT
5. Economics
C5
CREDIT
6. Literature
in
English
C5
CREDIT
7. Commerce
C5
CREDIT
8.
Christian Religious Studies
C6
CREDIT
Number of subjects recorded: 8(Eight) including the failed
subject (Biology).
Equally,
we also authenticate that the facts contained in the certificate issued to you
in respect of the aforementioned examination (Appendix 2 of your letter) as
reproduced below are also correct:
CANDIDATE
NO: 31474672FC
CANDIDATE
NAME: UBAH IFEANYI PATRICK
EXAM
YEAR: 2003
EXAM
TYPE: SSCE INT.
CENTRE
NUMBER: 020020
CENTRE
NAME: CARDOSO HIGH SCHOOL, AJEROMI/IFELODUN
CERTIFICATE
SERIAL NO.: 303865920
Subject
Grade
Interpretation
English
Language
C6
Credit
Mathematics
C6
Credit
Christian
Religious Studies
C6
Credit
Commerce
C5
Credit
Economics C5
Credit
Government
C6
Credit
Literature
in
English
C5
Credit
Number of subjects recorded: 7(Seven) excluding the failed
subject (Biology).
From
the foregoing data, what appeared as a ‘discrepancy’ between the two set of
data is the non-recording of Biology with F9(FAIL) in the certificate. This is
easily explained by stating that the conventional and obtainable practice among
examination bodies is that failed subjects are not recorded in the certificate,
although they remain in the examination bodies’ database and continue to appear
in both the statement of result(s) and confirmation of result(s) usually sent
to educational institutions. In simple language, examination bodies do not
issue certificate(s) for failed subject(s).
In all
we state with every sense of duty and responsibility that both the statement of
result and the certificate (Appendix 1 and 2 of your letter respectively) are
genuine. They both emanated from the council and correspond with the records in
our database.
Please
find attached the certified true copies of the following:
1. Online (Internet) copy of
the Statement of Result (which usually and still contains the failed subject:
Biology in this case).
2. Confirmation of Result
(which usually and still contains the failed subject: Biology in this case);
3. Broad sheet page showing
the candidate’s details among other candidates (which usually and still
contains the failed subject: Biology in this case); and
4. The original Certificate
(which usually and does not contain the failed subject: Biology in this case).
Sir,
kindly accept the assurances of the esteemed regards of the Registrar/Chief
Executive. Signed by Comfort L. Kolo, Esq. (HOD, Legal & Board Affairs) for
Registrar/Chief Executive.
This
miscarriage of judgment is damaging to the central place if integrity in the judicial
arm of government. This media briefing is to remind the Nigerian Judiciary and
especially THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COUNCIL that they can either work vigorously
to compel judges to adhere principles that promote and protect judicial
integrity or we wave goodbye to any sort of an INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY BECAUSE A
JUDICIAL SYSTEM WHICH IS NOT ANCHORED IN THE INTEGRITY OF THE MINISTERS IN THE
TEMPLE OF JUSTICE IS DOOMED".
HURIWA
then asked-: "Why is Dr. Obinna Uzoh still in doubts or does he have
a contrary intelligence?"
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