The management of the Lagos State University has reacted to a viral photo of its certificate found at a suya spot in the state.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that a certificate belonging to one Abisoye Azeez Oluwaseun, an engineering graduate student surfaced on social media some couple of days ago after a man requested to connect with the bearer because it was used to sell suya to him.
Oluwaseun graduated with Second Class Honours (Upper Division) in Chemical and Polymer Engineering from LASU, the certificate showed.
Reacting to the development, the institution’s management in a statement made available to the public on Tuesday said that the certificate has been invalidated because the bearer’s name is incorrectly spelt.
Confirming that the viral certificate exists, the school noted that it was invalidated on February 25, 2013, because the graduate’s surname was incorrectly written as ABISOYE instead of ABIOYE.
LASU further stressed that the institution had issued a new certificate with the correct surname, which the graduate collected on September 30, 2014.
The university maintained that according to its policy, the invalidated certificate should have been shredded immediately after re-issuance.
However, the certificate ended up in the public space due to an oversight.
The statement read, “The University, having recovered the certificate on November 21, 2018, wishes to make the following clarifications: The certificate in question exists but was invalidated on February 25, 2013, because the graduate’s surname was incorrectly written as ABISOYE instead of ABIOYE.
“The invalidated certificate got into the public space due to improper screening of office waste papers prior to disposal.”