Harvard University in Boston, United States, on Tuesday has denied a claim by Senator Dino Melaye that he was educated at the prestigious school.
The Registrar’s Office of the school immediately dismissed the suggestion as soon as the imformation reached them.
However, the Harvard Kennedy School of Educational Leadership had confirmed that Dino Melaye presented himself in November 2016 only for a one-week seminar in leadership. It was gathered that the seminar did not qualify anyone to become a Harvard alumnus.
Following a motion by Senator Ali Ndume asking the Senate’s Ethics and Privileges Committee to investigate allegations that Melaye didn’t properly graduate from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, Melaye had bragged that he has at least eight postgraduate degrees.
Melaye has been caught in a major certificate scandal in which Examination Officers at the Department of Geography, ABU, where Melaye took undergraduate classes, confirmed that he did not graduate from the institution. They went further to say that the documents he presented to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) were manipulated between Melaye and his then Head of Department, Prof. David Ogbonna.
The Examination Officers pointed out that Melaye was registered in the university as “Daniel Jonah O. Melaye,” a name they said was neither in the graduation brochure of ABU when his set graduated, nor found in any other graduation document. The Exam Officers mentioned how during his final year, the HOD added 2 course units to boost Melaye’s CGPA.
Melaye had reportedly bribed university officials to produce fake transcripts, on the basis of which he attended a program at the University of Jos, the University of Abuja, and currently at ABU.
Several of Melaye’s classmates and comrades also disputed his claim that he was a Students’ Union Government President at ABU. At best, they stated Melaye was a president of the National Association of Geography Students (NAGS) from where he was impeached for fraud.
