Ms. Deborah Ighiwiyisi Agbonayinma, the daughter of Mr Ehionzuwa Johnson Agbonayinma, lawmaker representing Egor/Ikpoba-Okha Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, has been sacked after her credentials were found to be fake, Igbere TV can report.
Findings by Igbere TV showed that Agbonayinma is the Chairman of Pension Ad Hoc Committee in the Lower Legislative Chamber.
Ms Deborah has been working with the National Pension Commission (PenCom) with her fake foreign and local university degree certificates.
She was sacked about four weeks ago after working at the commission for three years.
Investigation by Igbere TV further revealed that Deborah had worked in other government agency with the fake certificates before joining PenCom.
The Commission confirmed that she was sacked on February 27.
Ms Deborah’s curriculum vitae with which she was employed in PenCom, stated that she obtained a B.Sc degree in Accountancy from Irish University Business School, London, in 2012.
A Verification Committee set up by PenCom, however, found that no such university existed as a valid UK degree-awarding institution.
Having learnt that her foreign degree was fake, Ms Deborah brought another degree in Accountancy to the Commission as a replacement.
Findings, however, showed that the degree she claimed to have bagged from Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ogun State, was also fake.
Further investigation showed that the OOU degree was not listed as part of her academic qualifications in the original curriculum vitae submitted to PenCom, when she was employed.
Reacting, the Olabisi Olabanjo University in a letter dated February 6, 2019 and signed by the University’s Principal Assistant Registrar in charge of Exams and Records, Mrs O. L. Kaka, told PenCom that Ms Deborah’s academic records and transcripts were fake.
Her CV showed she was mobilised for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) from 2014 to 2015, but details are still sketchy as to whether the certificate she presented to the NYSC for the mobilisation is fake or not.
PenCom in a statement said: ’’We confirmed through the UK government’s site that the university is not recognised.”
