The Federal Government is
planning to prosecute nine
out of 26 members of the
Ekiti State House of Assembly
for alleged forgery of their
academic results, The PUNCH
has learnt.
A security source told one of
our correspondents in Abuja
on Sunday that the decision
to prosecute them was based
on the outcome of “an
intensive investigation
carried out by the
Department of State Services
into the state lawmakers’
certificates.’’
The DSS, it was gathered,
carried out the investigation
into the credentials submitted
by the politicians to the
Independent National
Electoral Commission during
the last general elections.
The PUNCH gathered that the
probe was sequel to a
myriad of petitions sent to
the agency and the Police by
aggrieved members of the
ruling Peoples Democratic
Party and the opposition
party in the state, the All
Progressives Congress.
Investigation was said to
have been carried out in
schools allegedly claimed to
have been attended by the
lawmakers and their former
places of work.
The source explained that
the files of the affected
lawmakers had been sent to
the office of the Attorney
General of the Federation for
prosecution.
The source added, “We
have investigated the
academic credentials of the
lawmakers based on
petitions sent to us by the
politicians in the state.
“The petitions were based
on alleged false declaration
of academic qualifications and
alleged age falsification in
the papers presented to the
INEC.
“We have been able to know
that petitions against nine
members of the State House
of Assembly are genuine.
“We have already presented
our report and we are
expecting the office of the
AGF to study it and prepare
the charges against the
suspects.”

The Federal Government is
planning to prosecute nine
out of 26 members of the
Ekiti State House of Assembly
for alleged forgery of their
academic results, The PUNCH
has learnt

AustineE1:
[s]I have never seen any man as vindictive as PMB,using state apparatus and wasting scarce resourses on his unbridled rage to bring down Gov. Fayose.
The plan is simple,twist the hands of the legislators and bargain with them to impeach Fayose and get back their freedom.
Nigerian economy is officially on recession,rather than tackling it,PMB and his neo-fascist DSS are busy fighting perceived enemies. The DSS now operates like the notorious DMI,during the Abacha evil days.
'absolute power intoxicates absolutely',the history of world is about the ugly end of tyrants,their ends are often worst than that of their victims. We all remember Col.Ghaddafi.Mobutu Seseseko,Paul Pot,Sani Abacha,Samuel Doe,Saddam Hussein and a lot more,who have all been confined to dust bin of history.
Daura or whatever his name is,was brought out of retirement to come and do the hatchet job with DSS....as for PMB,i beg to say sir,'once a soldier always a soldier'. Democracy is crying out for help in Nigeria.
How did we find ourselves in this mess?[/s]

BlackSeptember:
Buhari with fake certificate prosecuting lawmakers with fake certificate

AustineE1:
I have never seen any man as vindictive as PMB,using state apparatus and wasting scarce resourses on his unbridled rage to bring down Gov. Fayose.
The plan is simple,twist the hands of the legislators and bargain with them to impeach Fayose and get back their freedom.
Nigerian economy is officially on recession,rather than tackling it,PMB and his neo-fascist DSS are busy fighting perceived enemies. The DSS now operates like the notorious DMI,during the Abacha evil days.
'absolute power intoxicates absolutely',the history of world is about the ugly end of tyrants,their ends are often worst than that of their victims. We all remember Col.Ghaddafi.Mobutu Seseseko,Paul Pot,Sani Abacha,Samuel Doe,Saddam Hussein and a lot more,who have all been confined to dust bin of history.
Daura or whatever his name is,was brought out of retirement to come and do the hatchet job with DSS....as for PMB,i beg to say sir,'once a soldier always a soldier'. Democracy is crying out for help in Nigeria.
How did we find ourselves in this mess?

RareDiamonds:
BUHARI WHO IS THE CHIEF CERTIFICATE FORGER SHOULD NOT ONLY BE IMPEACHED BUT MUST BE TRIED AND JAILED FOR HIS NUMEROUS CRIMINAL ACTS. Nonsense government with Buhari a confused, clueless, criminal, arrogant and bigoted tyrannt as their leader. This evil APC government will fail in its evil agendas.