(Breaking) DG's certificate: Police take over FIIRO to stop protesting workers
Nsisonabasi Thompson
Jan 31, 2020
(Breaking) DG's certificate: Police take over FIIRO to stop protesting workers policemen in three trucks have reportedly stormed the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi, Lagos.
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The policemen were said to have taken over the premises to stop the ongoing protest by the workers against the controversial doctorate of the acting Director-General of FIIRO, Chima Igwe.
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"Everybody is afraid as I speak with you. They are everywhere, heavily armed," a source said on the telephone.
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FIIRO workers have been protesting for two weeks the refusal of the Ministry of Science and Technology to suspend Igwe for not presenting a certificate for a PhD he claimed he completed 18 years ago.
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They accused the minister, Ogbonnaya Onu, of double standards and supporting the 57-year-old.
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Igwe is under investigation by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission.
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Officials of the Universite d'Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic, where Igwe claimed to have bagged the doctorate, had, however, told Newsmen that he started the programme but did not complete it.
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