The former D-G is charged with certificate fraud before Justice Sherifat Solebo of an Ikeja Special Offences Court.
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An ICPC investigator, Vera Esidene, said this on Tuesday at an Ikeja Special Offences Court trying Igwe for certificate fraud.
The Chief Operating Officer of the organisation, Anthony Isama, made the intention known on Wednesday in a statement made available in Abuja.
The removal of Igwe, who is being probed by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission for presenting himself as holding a Doctorate degree when he was yet to complete his studies, was contained in official notice to the workers on Tuesday by the Director of Human Resources and Administration, Olutoyin Akinfire
Documents obtained by The PUNCH revealed that the ICPC had already communicated this decision to the Ministry of Science and Technology, the ministry supervising the institute
The PUNCH, which broke the initial story, was told by the Ministry that it acted within its powers in appointing Igwe
Igwe, who claimed to have bagged the degree from the Universite Nationale du Benin (now Universite d’Abomey-Calavi) in Benin Republic, received several promotions based on the purported degree
FIIRO said the jobs would be created through processing and value addition to the nation’s raw materials
The Chief Operating Officer of the Kwara State MSME Bureau, Segun Soewu, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, said the event will hold at the Banquet Hall, Ilorin by 10am daily
She said that the institute was a catalyst for national development and if given the priority it deserved, it would alleviate poverty