CURRENT REPORT BLOG Professor Maduebibisi Iwe, the vice chancellor of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture in Umudike, Abia State, has expressed concern about the increasing number of counterfeit transcripts and credentials in the global community that were not given by the university.
This is despite his declaration that university students would bear responsibility if they permitted miscreants to use them to demolish the school’s assets during Tuesday’s rioting.
According to Professor Iwe, who made this statement on Wednesday while informing the media about the disturbance, miscreants and criminals broke into the school and destroyed priceless items under the guise of student protests.
He denied the allegations that the students’ fees had increased by 60%. He claims that several students attempted to argue that the school’s tuition were excessive after blowing their money on sports betting and other frivolities.
Prof. Iwe added that the “No Pay, No Examination” policy he put in place was not new to the university and that a biometric policy had been instituted to check for impersonation, missing scripts, delayed results and transcripts, and similar issues.
The vice chancellor, who defended the biometric capturing strategy, expressed sadness that inquiries about fake diplomas from the global community were flooding the university, asking to know if they indeed came from the university.
“People print our certificates and transcripts and use them to fish for admission and jobs without such documents emanating from us,” he stated.
“The international communities have been [bombarding us with inquiries over] all manner of fake certificates [purportedly] from this university to verify; it is becoming alarming.”
Additionally, he accused some university teachers of engaging in “sorting” and of being against the biometric programme.
“Our students and their disgruntled lecturer supporters do not want it because it will reveal their nefarious trade,” Prof. Iwe said.”
The Vice Chancellor refuted rumours that students had physically been abused by him.
Additionally, he refuted stories claiming that students were shot by the military, stating that such an incident never occurred.
He said that the university Senate would convene to assess the extent of damage inflicted by the thugs and to decide what punishment to administer to any students found to be at fault.
