Alarming rates of fake academic certificates in South Sudan affects economy and jobs market
3 min readBy Emmanuel Malual Makuach, Nairobi, Kenya
March 29, 2016 (SSB) —- Dear Mr Minister John Gai Yoah south Sudanese appealing your intervention! We are about to sink! We are about to die! Mr. Minister you may have heard (in south Sudan) of fake doctors, fake preachers, fake policemen, ghost workers and army generals intelligences fake marriages .accountants office managers. Fake media practitioner’s reporters fake money too.
Indeed, the recent discovery of a fake policeman who rose through the ranks in the Police services to the position of superintendent before the on-going through training on military ethics or human rights .transparency and accountability smoked him out is a confirmation of a painful reality of ‘fakeness.’
Mr. Minister the world of fakeness is real in your country and its eating your south Sudanese citizenry with urgency. This trend is seriously worrying and it’s igniting a national debate of the extent to which people present fake academic and professional certificates and get plump jobs under the disguise of this evil practice the good education and environment for the new generations to come.
This is a mutating cancer and soon, it will lead this country into the lake of fire! The proliferation of fake academic and professional certificates in your government is wanting and need to be addressed with urgency. While ordering this, qualification audit to all civil servants in south Sudan we also request that you extend your executive order to every organization, institutions, company and/or entity in south Sudan to conduct a thorough qualification audit of their employees and present an audited academic and professional qualification to your able office for action.
Needless to say, this is also a trend we have seen even in private companies, religious institutions and non-governmental organizations. Banks and financial institutions are not spared either. To be screened of all civil servants and all working individuals in south Sudan must be done for the benefits of generations to come.
Fake certificates are also presented by those seeking to join institutions of higher learning for admission even without meeting the minimum requisite qualifications for admissions. We know of institutions of higher learning in south Mr minister john Ghai Yoah kindly order a crackdown of ‘fakeness’ institutions in south Sudan that graduates half bed grandaunt.
Unfortunately, our faith in our government is fading-reason-it is still under your ministry where this evil of fake certificates and professional qualifications thrives. Please do something urgently rest we all die into the lake of fire!
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