A family friend, Mr. Shanu, working as a non-academic staff of the University was the person that assisted Kate in working out the admission process after a huge sum had been paid to him by Kate’s father. So it was Mr. Shanu that forwarded the admission letter to Kate.
On getting to the school, Shanu instructed her not to go ahead with her courses registration yet, but advised her to go ahead and attend lectures normally. He explained that there were some delays with her name reflecting in the batch list sent to the examination regulatory body; amidst other excuses.
Kate, by then, had been known by almost most students on the campus because of her conspicuous nature. She lived off campus in one of the student off-school hostels. Something was wrong with her admission, she suspected, but didn’t tell her parents. The man told her that she didn’t need to tell her parents nor return home. He promised to make sure that at the next admission, she would be taken.
At the time of her semester exams, she summarily avoided the campus, though very few students noticed except for her close friends that she gave the impression that she was ill and that she would always have her own papers done privately. This was the routine until the end of the session.
It was a terrible dashing of hope at the next admissions when she was not on the list of admissions again! By then, she felt it was too late to tell her parents the truth because it would be too shameful for the people at home and community to know she was packing her things back home. She was to spend three years in the school, because she was to be admitted with her ‘A’ level results.
At a time, she completely started avoiding the campus. She perceived many people had noticed that something was wrong. Sometimes, she would travel to other schools to visit her friends for almost half the semester. By then, she had even mixed up with some terrible characters as friends, but at home her parents believed their daughter was nearing the end of her education.
At the end of her supposed years at the school, she didn't even inform her parents about any graduation. Kate returned home, expecting her arranged National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) call-up letter, and when she eventually got it, she had been posted to a fake NYSC orientation camp in Northern Nigeria. Kate paid heavily for this call-up arrangement. All was well with the camp until security agents suddenly raided the camp!
Kate and 86 other fake youth corps’ members were arrested and paraded by the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) at the illegal orientation camp following intelligence surveillance. The fake graduates, some of whom were in the khaki uniform of the National Youth Service Corps, were paraded by NSCDC and their NSCDC boss announced that the suspects paid between N80,000 to N150,000 to the fake NYSC operators.
You could imagine Kate’s parents’ horror, confusion and disbelief when they learnt that their daughter was among those arrested and paraded. All their toiling, sacrificial denial and expenses on her during the supposed academic period, gone down the drain!
Kate had hoped to secure a fake NYSC certificate from the fake camp and combine it with the fake BSc degree certificate which she paid heavily for at the sham documents black market.
There are 100s of supposed students like Kate all over our higher institutions! For most of them, it might not have been their own design to be floaters, but something would always go wrong with their untidy and backdoor admission arrangements.
Some might actually be admitted, properly but along the line got expelled for situations such as examination mal-practices, use of fake Ordinary level School Certificates (WAEC) during their initial admission to higher institutions; while some might have been expelled for participating in occultism and occultist practices within the schools’ vicinity .
Many atimes, their parents may never know, but instead they keep believing that their wards are progressing at their academics; while in actual fact they are just living in or around campuses doing nothing.
So I wish to ask you parents, do you suspect that something fishy about your beloved son or daughter pertaining to their tertiary institutions? Have you ever visited them on while in school? Do you know any of their lecturers?
Employers of labour also need to stop hiring based on face value! My background check firm’s experience, over the last 10 years, has attested that about 33% of supposed higher institutions’ graduates are either working or proposing to work with fake or forged educational, NYSC or Professional certificates.
Running background checks on new and current employers has become so imperative, because no person can give what he or she doesn’t have. An experience not earn can’t be expended.
Lastly, all those in the shoes of Kate need to realize that most organizations are now wiser. They engage the services of background screening firms such as Background Check International (BCI), Nigeria’s first Background Check Company, hence, there’s nothing that you cover that will not be exposed.
My advice to Kate and company, what happened to you initially is unfortunate and painful, but that’s not the end of the world. Admit your errors and mis-doings, make a U-turn, and do the right thing. You might have lost some years in the processes, but I can assure you that in no time, you will gain it back.
Continuing on the journey on a wrong road will never make you end up on the right road. Wrong roads, most times, end up in pain, disgrace, depression and destruction. Be wise. Turn back from it.
Humn. All is well
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