Delta House of Assembly sacks 26 employees for certificate forgery
(Nigeria) Mrs Josephine Kachikwu, the Chairman, Delta State House of Assembly Commission, said 26 employees of the commission had been dismissed from service due to certificate forgery. Kachikwu said this in a statement by her on Monday in Asaba, said that those affected were two management staff, 10 middle management cadre staff, five technical officers, six senior admin officers, and three junior staff, while cases of 22 others were pending. She said that the dismissal was effected after a thorough verification and re-verification exercise had been carried out by a team of experts. ``This was consequent upon the infighting by some employees over seniority which resulted in protests that some of their colleagues were presenting fake certificates so that they will be upgraded far and above their equals. ``The commission engaged the services of a firm of external auditors to carry out certificate verification. ``The firm has submitted its report and every case was subjec