Ekema Patrick Might Go Free After Proven Academic Credentials Fraud; UB Senate Plays Politics At Las
- Linda EYONG Suzy
- Oct 11, 2017
- 6 min read
The year is soon getting to an end and the University of Buea is still to take its decision on the case of already proven Ekema Patrick's academic fraud scandal.
Some months back, hundreds of lecturers at the University of Buea were accused of holding and using fraud certificates at the expense of the students. Amongst them was the "Almighty" Ekema Patrick, who claims to hold a an Honorary PhD (something that does not exist at all because PhD is earned), from a US-based University (Azusa Pacific University).
It took the regional Human Rights office of Buea days to weeks to obtain copies of his credentials (GCE A and O levels) from the Cameroon GCE Board. The registrar of the GCE Board attested in writing to the Human Rights office that Ekema Patrick wrote both the Ordinary and Advanced level examinations several years to no avail.
On the other hand, Mark Bareta took time to inquire at the Azusa Pacific University about Ekema's "Honorary PhD". In just a matter of days, the university replied Mark Bareta, attesting in an email that, after searching their archives as far as a hundred years back, they found no record bearing the name Ekema Patrick. The university further made some interesting remarks (below);
Their university name is Azusa Pacific University and not Asuza Pacific University, as Ekema has spelled on his complimentary card.
PhD is an earned degree and not an Honorary degree as Ekema has always put it.
Back in Buea, I remember the Minister Minister of Higher Education, while in Buea for a ceremony at the University of Buea, told students who were protesting against the fraudstar Ekema that, when he gets to Yaounde, he would look into the matter. It is getting to a year now and neither the Minister nor the University Senate is saying anything.
Below is an article from Mark Bareta, talking about the politics that the University Senate is playing over the matter, especially at the last UB Senate Seating.
Several months after the fake Certificates scandal involving the colonial mayor of Buea, Ekema Patrick Esunge, the University of Buea Senate is still to take decisive action against the mayor and his two university degrees to save the image and credibility of the university Buea and her certifications.
Following a census of the over bloated support staff payroll of the University of Buea some months ago, the Mayor, who was also a support staff of the institution and had risen to the rank of a Faculty Officer in the Faculty of Education, had hurriedly resigned from his position after his ordinary and Advanced Level Certificates, which he used to gain employment and admissions into the University were discovered to have been faked.
The Registrar of the G.C.E Board, Dr. Ekema Humphrey Monono, had made public the O/A level results of the Mayor upon a request by the Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission for South West Region, Barrister Tambe Tiku, on the need to clear the air on a scandal involving such a public and political personality. The results showed that Mayor Ekema attempted the O/A levels several times and failed woefully. The implication of this scandalous revelations is that the admissions granted the Mayor into the University of Buea for the BA and MA degree programs in History were highly questionable. A development that led UB students, Alumni and other necessary stakeholders to mount pressure on the authorities to investigate the scandal and take decisive actions to protect the credibility of the University and her Certificates.
In his first week in office, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Buea, Professor Horace Ngomo Manga, had set up an investigative panel made up of some of the Deputy Vice Chancellors, Registrar and some other persons. The mandate of the panel was to investigate the fake certificates scandal, how the mayor was able to gain employment and admissions into the University with the allege fake certificates. From what BaretaNews knows, the mayor, Mr. Ekema Patrick had confessed to his close friends and confidants that he is guilty the crime of falsification of O/A levels, but turned down an invitation to appear before the investigative panel to defend himself. The panel had long concluded its findings and made recommendations to the University Senate, one of which include the withdrawal of the BA and MA degrees the university has awarded him.
Lugubriously, in a typical RDPC style of political mafia, the University of Buea Senate last week, advanced its attempts to completely kill and cover-up the fake Certificates scandal, which has become a serious threat to the global credibility of University of Buea degree Certificates. Members of the University Senate were all excited to see the matter on the agenda of last week Senate session, as the report of the investigative panel was highly expected to be laid before the Senate and actions taken in relation to its content. When it was time to address the matter on the agenda, the Deputy Vice Chancellor in charge of Teaching and Professionalization, Professor Blais Mokoko, informed the Senate that the matter of Mayor Ekema’s fake Certificates is still under investigation and there was need to give the investigative panel more time to complete its work. The question we now ask here is; For how long will such an investigation with already available clean evidence and records last? To show that it was a well planned and agreed mafia, the matter was hurriedly overruled from the agenda leaving those who did not understand the monkey business going on to wonder in confusion.
It is the duty of Baretanews, the Peoples Platform to remind the authorities of the University of Buea that, this issue should be handled and treated squarely and expeditiously out of the confines of political maneuvering and corruption. This is now a global scandal and the credibility of the degree Certificates of thousands of UB graduates all over the world is at stake. The politicisation of higher education in Southern Cameroons, emanating from the colonial administrative practices in La Republique du Cameroon shall no longer be entertained. We should be able to build and separate our university system from political jaywalking and jiggery-pokery.
The drama at the last Senate Seating is very laughable as we, at The SCAR.press do not yet know how Ekema Patrick will escape this one. Like BaretaNews, we have readjusted and focused our antenna on this case. Because the education of Southern Cameroonians can not be jeopardized at the benefit of someone who was probably doing something else in school why others were studying, we shall hold the university to account on any fake decision.
The greatest part of the work has been done by the Human Right office, and Mark Bareta, in collaboration of the GCE Board and Azusa University, and this was done within days to weeks. The University of Buea can not now pretend it is still investigating this matter and has to do this for more than a year. By the way, the Human Rights office's report, which discredits Ekema's two certificates, which are the prerequisite to gain admission into the university, is more than enough for the university to take their decision.
We urge the university to provide adequate information to the kind of investigation they are carrying out the level at which they are.
Irrespective of the result of investigation of the University of Buea, all Southern Cameroonians must know that, we all welcome and validate the report of the South West Regional office for Human Rights and the email sent out by Azusa University, discrediting Ekema's Credentials. On this note alone, we must all avoid Ekema Patrick as far as education is concerned. We can not be fighting the government for deploying teachers of french subsystem of education to teach our children, and yet accept someone with fake certificates and degrees as high as PhD. Most painful is the fact that Ekema Patrick is occupying the position of someone who is more qualified and probably roaming the streets or playing Parifoot or PMUC out of frustration.
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