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<\/p>\n\u201cFrom the university\u2019s records, Ibrahim Baba-Hassan enrolled into a Diploma in Business Administration programme in 1994, but failed six courses and did not write them so as to complete the programme.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe did not complete that programme and could not have obtained any certificate in 1996 as is being claimed,\u201d Danjem explained while being cross examined by the defence counsel, Mr Solomon Umoh (SAN).<\/p>\n
Baba-Hassan, member representing Jos North-North Constituency in Plateau House of Assembly, is standing trial over alleged forging of the university\u2019s diploma certificate in Business Administration, which he claimed to have obtained in 1996.<\/p>\n
NAN reports that the complainant in the case is Alhaji Abdul Sale, an APC member, who contested the state constituency primary elections in 2014 and lost the party\u2019s ticket to Baba-Hassan.<\/p>\n
Sale is alleging that Baba-Hassan was not qualified to have contested the primary election having presented a forged certificate to INEC for clearance.<\/p>\n
The Registrar told the court in his evidence-in-chief that the diploma certificate the lawmaker issued to INEC in 2014, while contesting for the Plateau House Assembly seat, did not emanate from the University of Jos.<\/p>\n
Dajem said that the lawmaker failed courses during the programme, adding that there was no way the university could have issued him with a certificate.<\/p>\n
He also told the court that even when the Nigeria Police Force wrote to the university to confirm the authenticity of the certificate, the institution wrote back \u201cand bluntly told the Police that it did not issue the diploma certificate\u201d.<\/p>\n
Dajem spoke further: \u201cOn March 9, 2016, we saw a publication in Punch Newspaper claiming that the university issued Ibrahim Baba-Hassan with that diploma certificate; we found that strange and promptly countered it via a disclaimer published in the Vanguard Newspaper\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe University of Jos at no time issued the defender with such a certificate knowing fully well that he did not complete the course, \u2019\u2019 he stated.<\/p>\n
Again, when Umoh presented a 2000 Convocation booklet to the Prosecution witness and showed him where Baba-Hassan was issued with a B.Sc Degree in Management Science, Danjem declared that it was \u201conly a semblance of the university\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need to compare this convocation booklet with what I have in the school before I could be convinced that it is a true copy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is even a contradiction. The Degree certificate you earlier showed me claimed that Baba-Hassan had a second class lower division in 2000. But in the convocation booklet you are showing me, he obtained a third class.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I need to compare this booklet with that which I have, so as to be sure if this is printed by the university,\u201d Dajem said. \u2019<\/p>\n
He explained that the university had every record about Baba-Hassan right from the time he enrolled into the university for the diploma programme, but reaffirmed that the lawmaker did not graduate and could not have been issued with a certificate after failing six courses.<\/p>\n
Mr David Ibeawuchi, prosecution counsel and Mr Joseph Danboyi, who held brief for the APC counsel, Mr L. D. Dafar, did not re-cross examine Danjem after the defence counsel completed his task with him.<\/p>\n
The judge, Justice Musa Kurya, adjourned the case to Dec. 7 for continuation of hearing.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mr. Monday Danjem, Registrar, University of Jos, on Thursday told a Federal High Court in Jos that a Business Administration Diploma claimed by Mr Ibrahim Baba-Hassan, a member of the Plateau House of Assembly, is fake. \u201cFrom the university\u2019s records, Ibrahim Baba-Hassan enrolled into a Diploma in Business Administration programme in 1994, but failed six […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2828,3,4],"tags":[29,2540,6859],"class_list":["post-65781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-certificate","tag-unijos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}