------After reading his falsified citation
Not a few visitors and members of reh academic community were piqued afew days ago when hackers compromised the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, website, thereby making the University to erroneously produce wrong citation for former IG, Ibrahim Commassie who was due to be given a honorary doctorate degree. The situation forced the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Benjamin Chukwuma Ozumba, to publicly beg former Inspector General of Police whose citation was corrupted.In the corrupted citation, the former IG was alleged to have been invited for questioning for some of the atrocities he committed while in office as the head of the Police.
The VC, who knelt down and begged the Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Ibrahim Coomassie, former Inspector General of Police, during the 45th convocation ceremony that took place at Margarate Ekpo Hall, lamented that the university website was hacked into by cyber criminals.
He regretted that vital information was not only compromised but distorted; adding that one of such distortions included that of the citation of the former police boss.
Coomassie, who was among five prominent Nigerians that were awarded honourary doctorate degree to mark the school’s 45th Convocation, bagged honourary doctorate degree in Public Administration.
The vice chancellor, who was not only irked but embarrassed by the distortion, had genuflected sheepishly before Coomassie and begged him to overlook the embarrassing mistakes in his citation.
Other honourary doctorate degree awardees were, Igwe Alfred Achebe of Onitsha; Anambra State businessman Chief Arthur Eze and other prominent Nigerians joined Prof. Ozumba in begging the former IG to overlook the mistake made by the University. Both Chief Arthur Eze and Senator Ike Nwachukwu, mounted the rostrum to apologise for the mistake. At the long run, another citation was quickly put up and read to mollify the former police chief. Curiously, the corrupted citation was produced and circulated at the Convocation and award of honorary doctorate degrees without any staff of the institution raising their eyebrows until it was made public thus exposing the institution and the awardee to ridicule.
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