Fake Certificate: Kenya, Uganda Write JAMB To Demand Students’ Verification

The Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that examination boards in Kenya and Uganda are now writing Nigeria to verify records presented by Nigerian candidates seeking admissions into tertiary institutions in their respective countries.

This was coming after cases of fake certification recently detected by JAMB.

In a document, ‘Registrar’s Report on 2023 ADMISSION & 2024 UTME Policy Meeting’, JAMB stressed the need to protect Nigeria’s tertiary institutions from international disrepute, adding that it would not falsify the records of any students.

“Uganda and Kenya examination boards are now writing to JAMB to confirm records presented by candidates for admission of candidates. JAMB would not falsify record,” the Nigerian exam body stated.

It would be recalled that the verification of degree certificates from Uganda, Kenya, Benin Republic, Togo and some other countries was recently suspended by the Federal Government over allegations of certificate racketeering.

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The Federal Government’s decision comes on the heels of an investigation by Daily Nigeria reporter, Umar Audu on how he obtained a degree within six weeks in the Benin Republic.

After his report, the Federal Government set up an Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling to probe the activities of certificate racketeers.

Also, JAMB threatened to sanction higher institutions that fail to submit lists of students admitted immediately after matriculation.

According to JAMB’s Public Communications Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, the initiative is one of the recommendations made by a committee set up by the Federal Government to combat fake degree racketeering in the country.