Uganda: Find Permanent Cure to Makerere Degree Scam

21 September 2017
editorial

It's disgraceful. It's painful. It's unacceptable. Makerere University intends to cancel 69 degrees of its graduates on account that they were forged. The suspects are awaiting a hearing after which the university will make a decision on whether to cancel or clear their transcripts. The investigation committee has also uncovered unspecified number of undergraduates still at the university whose academic results have been altered for their undeserved benefit.

This implies the degree fraud at the country's oldest and most prestigious university is so chronic and prevalent that to suggest it's getting entrenched would not be a farfetched conclusion. It's good the university has appointed an investigation into the scam and hopefully, more or all crooks, who obtained degrees not by brain, but money, sex and other means, will be exposed and severely punished.

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