For too long Campaigners for Academic Crimes Court (CACC), was launched by some young Liberian professionals including Jamel Dugbeh, Vandalark R. Patricks, Gbarpoluboy Ambulah, Janet Flomo Lloyd, Saki Tango, BassaPekin Whitfield, Joseph Boldar Jr, and Martin K. N. Kollie, begun a crackdown on bogus degrees.

On the onset, the move was greeted with mixed givens with many expressing political undertone into the campaign. However, the continuous proliferation unabated, the government of Liberia must act to rescue the professional and academic space of Liberia.

We believed that the government of Liberia must see the call by the young Liberian professionals as genuine in the fight against corruption and sincere effort to restoring genuine academic plurality once more in Liberia.

We wonder why the silence of the Ministry of Education and the National Commission for High Education on crackdown of fake credentialists from those who earned their legit credentials amidst reports of some 249 Liberians who are in possession of the fake degree from the “Atlantic International University (AIU)”.

We too call on the Government of Liberia, particularly the  Ministry of Education to join its sisterly Republic of Rwanda the fight to stop the mega fraud and unfair academic practices.

We hail Rwanda for takng a bore-step against fake credentials by academic  fraudsters, especially from the bogus “Atlantic International University (AIU)”., by exposing them in handcuffed, prosecuted, jailed, and compelled to pay back every cent that was ever received from any form of employment as a result of using fake degree(s). This is what a serious government does. This is what a country like Liberia wants for a prosperous future.

Certainly we join calls by  campaigners at CACC: Jamel Dugbeh, Vandalark R. Patricks, Gbarpoluboy Ambulah, Janet Flomo Lloyd, Saki Tango, BassaPekin Whitfield, Joseph Boldar Jr, and Martin K. N. Kollie,  to establish an Academic Crimes Court (ACC) through an Act of Legislature; Conduct of a National Verification Exercise (NVE) of all academic credentials from Nursery to Tertiary (National Credential Audit), and establish a National Academic Database (NAD) to track and profile fake credentials/credentialists from legitimate credentials/credentialists.  Yes ,  the government of Liberia must act now!

(Courtesy of Martin K. N. Kollie, Campaigner on Research and Reporting, CACC)