ONE of President Muhammadu Buhari's anti-corruption advisers has become embroiled in an exam scandal amid allegations that she participated in examination fraud at the University of Jos in May 4 this year.
Benedicta Daudu, a member of the President Buhari’s Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, is alleged to have cheated in an examination at the university. The Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption, headed by prominent law professor and civil rights campaigner Professor Itse Sagay and is made up of mainly university professors and is the intellectual wing of President Buhari’s anti-corruption war.
Its mandate includes advising the president on the implementation of required reforms in Nigeria’s anti-corruption campaign and criminal justice system. Mrs Daudu, an associate professor of law and head of the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law of the Faculty of Law in Unijos, was allegedly caught cheating while writing an examination for a Master’s degree in Research and Public Policy in the Faculty of Social Sciences of the same university.
In August last year, President Buhari named Professor Sagay at the head of a new committee to advise him on how to deal with graft in public life. Given the scale of corruption that took place under the administration of former president Dr Goodluck Jonathan, it has been deemed impossible to prosecute everyone and Professor Sagay advised politicians to enter onto plea bargains under which they return funds in exchange for leniency.
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