Governor Gabriel Suswam Did GCE Exams - WAEC

This is the news coming form today's tribune online paper about the alleged of forgery by the Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State. Thanks to God and also WAEC. West African Examination Council (WAEC) has cleared the fog surrounding the allegation of certificate forgery levelled against Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State.

On Friday, the examination body tendered the original General Certificate of Education (GCE) result of the governor before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Abuja.
The Assistant Registrar, Mr Kingsly Ugo Anyim, tendered the document, which the court admitted as exhibit in the alleged certificate forgery matter involving Suswam.
Three persons are standing trial for allegedly defaming the character of the governor in an article published in the Power Steering magazine.

The editor of the magazine, Dan Ekah, Chidozie Ukpai and one Oseer were arraigned by the police for “joint act of defamation of character, injurious falsehood, printing or engraving matter, known to be defamatory and sale of printing of engraved substance containing defamatory matter, contrary to sections 79,392,393,394 and 395 of the Penal Code Law.”
The Chief Magistrate, Hafsat Soso, was to rule on the no-case submission made by the accused, but had to adjourn till March 23 to enable her to go through the governor’s GCE result submitted by WAEC.
The court had earlier struck out the preliminary objection filed by the accused for being premature and ill-timed, but the accused had insisted that there was nothing linking them to the charges preferred against them by the police.

Governor Suswam’s Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Dr Cletus Akwaya, a prosecution witness in the matter, had told the court under cross examination that the said publication was not only written in bad faith, but the authors did not state whether they made efforts to verify the authenticity or otherwise of the allegations against the governor.

source: http://www.tribune.com.ng/sat/index.php/news/6903-waec-clears-suswam-of-alleged-certificate-forgery.html