The West
African Examinations Council (WAEC) has issued a document, obtained by SaharaReporters declaring that Senator Emmanuel Nnamdi Uba,
better known as Andy Uba, forged both a secondary school certificate and
“Confirmation of Result” which he presented to British authorities.
In a letter dated February 12, 2014 and addressed to the
attention of George Smith of Public Agencies, located at 57 Peel Road, Wembley
Middlesex, HA9 7LY in the United Kingdom, WAEC stated, “Letter reference no.
L/CR/CONF/05465089 dated 21st November, 2013 is fake.” According to the
examination body, “Mr. A.A. Okelezo, as you rightly observed, reported as the
Controller of our branch office in Calabar on 7th October, 2013 having been
deployed from the Ikeja Zonal Office. He was never the Head of National Office,
as indicated at the foot of the letter under reference. The signature on the
document is in no way similar to his signature.”
In a report earlier today, SaharaReporters disclosed that
Senator Uba, who represents Anambra South senatorial zone, had falsified the
grades he earned in the secondary school leaving certificate exams conducted by
WAEC throughout West Africa. Mr. Uba, a former senior domestic assistant to
former President Olusegun Obasanjo, attended Union Secondary School (formerly
Boys High School), Awkunanaw, a suburb of Enugu, the current capital of Enugu
State. Records obtained from the school and elsewhere showed that the
controversial senator attended Union Secondary School from 1970 to 1974, when
he sat the secondary school leaving certificate.
WAEC’s letter to Mr. Smith clarified that "the Examination
conducted in May/June 1974 was GCE [General Certificate of Education] and not
WASSCE as indicated on the Confirmation of Result."
Signed by O.M. Adebayo, deputy Registrar in charge of School
Exams Department, WAEC’s letter added: “The Certificate No: SC 544753 with
candidate No. 05465089 was found to be fake, as signatures on the document were
forged. Also, the serial number quoted on the ‘certificate’ was non-existent in
our system. In addition, the spelling of GRADE as GARDE let the document out as
fake.” Mr. Adebayo stated that a candidate with the same name as Mr. Uba “sat
the GCE in the school in 1974,” and then detailed the authentic results earned
by the senator.
Mr. Uba’s real results, as certified by WAEC in its letter
to Mr. Smith, showed that the senator performed woefully, scoring “credit” in
only one subject, Chemistry. He failed English Language, Bible Knowledge, and
Economics. He earned grades of mere “pass,” which are close to “fail,” in the
following subjects: English Language, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, and
Biology. By contrast, Mr. Uba’s falsified results claimed that he earned the
following grades: English Literature 4, English Language 7, Christian Religious
Knowledge 7, Economics 4, Statistics 6, Mathematics 6, Physics 4, and Chemistry
6.
In addition to fraudulently altering the grades he obtained
in his terminal secondary school certificate, Mr. Uba also claimed on his
official website as well as his page on the National Assembly website that he
obtained bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees from Concordia University,
Canada, California State University, and Buxton University in the UK. Our
investigations disclosed that Mr. Uba indeed registered as an undergraduate
student in both Concordia University and California State University, but that
he dropped out of both institutions without completing enough work to earn even
a bachelor’s degree. Our further investigation also showed that Buxton
University is not an accredited institution of learning, but a “certificate
mill” that sells degrees to anybody willing to pay a small fee. Even though Mr.
Uba’s official website claimed that the senator attended Buxton University in
the UK, the fake institution does not have any physical address in Britain. It
once operated out of Portugal, using that country as a location from which to
send “certificates” to customers around the world.
In his forged secondary school leaving certificate, Mr. Uba
claimed that he scored “First Division.” WAEC’s document to Mr. Smith debunks
the claim. In his letter, Mr. Adebayo stated, “for a candidate to have been
qualified for a First Division Certificate under the WASC/GCE regime, he/she
must have passed in at least six subjects selected in accordance with the
Regulations, reaching Credit in at least five of them (including English
Language…” WAEC’s letter was emphatic that Mr. Uba “did not fulfill the
condition and could therefore not have been awarded Division One.”
SaharaReporters
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