UNN, NYSC disown ex-minister Uche Nnaji’s certificates - ICPC witness Yakubu Ibrahim tells court

An researcher with the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, Yakubu Ibrahim, connected Monday told the Federal High Court successful Abuja that the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, and the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, disowned certificates allegedly presented by erstwhile Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji.

Ibrahim stated this portion testifying arsenic the archetypal prosecution witnesser earlier Justice Joyce Abdulmalik successful the alleged certificate forgery lawsuit against the erstwhile minister.

According to the witness, the ICPC launched an probe aft receiving 2 abstracted petitions accusing Nnaji of certificate forgery.

He said the committee wrote to the National Assembly, the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, UNN and the NYSC to authenticate a Bachelor of Science grade certificate successful Microbiology and Biochemistry and an NYSC discharge certificate dated May 15, 1986, allegedly presented by Nnaji during his ministerial screening successful 2023.

Ibrahim told the tribunal that...