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More trouble for embattled Prof. Odoh as Federal University Gusau disowns professorship

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The Federal University of Gusau, Zamfara State, has said the professorship being paraded by the newly appointed Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Aikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Bernard Odoh, was a product of fraud.

Its reaction came against the backdrop of reports that Odoh obtained his professorship from the university.

The university in a statement last night, said: ”The Federal University Gusau hereby states in clear and unambiguous terms that the so called letters of tenure as professor and confirmation of promotion to the post of professor, dated 3oth April 2015 and 12th November, 2015, being paraded by Dr. Odoh Bernard Ifeanyi and purported to be certfied true copies hurriedly endorsed by Ibrahim Bawa Kaura, former Registrar of the Federal University, dated November 8, 2024, six years after the latter left the services of Federal University Gusau, are products of administrative fraud.

”The fraud was orchestrated by Odoh, working in cahoots with the former Vice Chancellor of the University and Registrar, as there is no official record of Dr. Odoh’s employment in the custody of the university.

”Further proof of the desperation to perpetrate such illegality is the impersonation and usurpation of the duties of the current Registrar of the university by the former Registrar, Ibrahim Bawa Kaura, who procured a fake stamp to certfiy Dr. Odoh’s equally fake employment documents as true copies on November 8, 2024, six years after his disengagement from the university.

”For purposes of emphasis, the requirements for certification of public documents are guided by law, In fact, section 104 of the Evidence Act 2011 clearly itemised the essential requirements necessary for a document to be regarded as a certified true copy as follows:

*The legal fees must be paid

*Thee must be certification at the foot of the document that it is a certified true copy of the original document in question

*The document must be dated and signed by the officer responsible for issuing it, with his name and title of his office

*The document must be sealed.

”A careful perusal of the above requirements and their juxtaposition against the certification of Dr. Odoh’s documents by Ibrahim Bawa Kaura clearly shows that the socalled certified true copies fell short of the provisions of Section 104 of the Evidence Act, 2011, and are, therefore, not legally tenable.

”It must be stated that having left the services of the university in 2018, Ibrahim Bawa Kaura, the former Registrar of the University of Gusau, has no locus to certify any official document for and on behalf of the university.”

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