In a bizarre twist of events at Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra State, an employee, Nwafor Nwesuzor, has found himself in hot water. He’s been suspended for an unusual case of alleged degree and certificate forgery.
The university authorities caught wind of this forgery fiasco when Nwesuzor, an administrative staff member, made the audacious move of asking to change his degree result. Dr. Emmanuel Ojukwu, the Special Adviser to the Vice Chancellor on Public Relations, was the one to spill the beans in a press statement last Thursday.
Nwesuzor initially abandoned his undergraduate program but decided to cook up a fake degree result and a forged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) exclusion letter to land a job at the university. However, things went off the rails when he tried to upgrade his degree. He submitted a new result with a different name, Nwafor Nwesuzor, and a different class of degree, which set off alarm bells.
The investigation uncovered the whole plot – two completely different class of degrees in the two sets of documents. The fake result under the name Nwafor Osborne Ogbonnaya claimed a second class lower division, while the real result under Nwafor Ogbonnaya Nwesuzor had a third class.
To address this academic absurdity, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Charles Esimone, didn’t pull any punches. He suspended Nwafor Ogbonnaya (or Nwesuzor, depending on who you ask) for a solid six months, while more university procedures unfold. It’s a bold move, and it’s clear that forgery isn’t being taken lightly.
