Clergy calls for probe into certificate scam

By ANDREW ALPHONSE
THERE should be an independent inquiry into allegations of certificate scam at the Lutheran church-run Balob Teachers College.
The call comes from Rev Mark Bito, mission education secretary of the PNG Gutnius Lutheran church in Wabag.
Rev Bito told The National yesterday that reports of many Grade 10 dropouts buying Grade 12 certificates from other students to enrol at Balob and other tertiary institutions should be investigated.
Rev Bito recently told The National of spotting about 11 Grade 10 dropouts from Enga province trying to enrol at the college this year.
He said the students were trying to sponsor themselves, adding out of the list of 128 names of self-sponsored students on the notice board, the 11 students’ real names were not included.
He claimed that they were trying to enrol under different names, which appeared on the Grade 12 certificates that they bought off from someone employed or studying at other institutions.
Rev Bito called on the two head bishops David Piso of PNG Gutnius Lutheran and Rev Dr Wesley Kigasung of the PNG Evangelical Lutheran church, which run the college, to institute an independent commission of inquiry into the scam as he fears that the practice is rampant.
Rev Bito is a council member of the college and has raised the matter with the college administration in Lae.

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