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Law Maker Commits Academic Crime Courtesy: Public Agenda 26 April, 2010  Some
ambitious men missed out on early education and resort to false means to
cover up the gap. Sometimes they succeed, but at other times they are
booked by the radar of society. A former Speaker of the House had
similar saga. Now, As Our Staff writer J. Rufus Paul reports, another
Law maker is reportedly in the heat, nearing expulsion from UL, under
pressures from alumni of a school which documents he allegedly forged.
The desire of Bomi County Representative to obtain higher education for which he controversially made his way to the University of Liberia (UL) is about to crumble, as members of the alumni association of the high school from which he claimed to have graduated are charging that he allegedly forged their school’s documents. According to the president of the C.H Dewey High School Alumni Association in Bomi County, Mr. Clarence Cooper, current documents including the West African Examination Council (WAEC) certificate and the high school diploma being used by Representative Cooper to catapult himself as student of UL are faked. In a letter addressed to UL President Dr. Emmet Dennis, a copy of which is in the possession of this paper, the C. H. Dewey Alumni Association said since the matriculation of the Bomi County lawmaker at the nation’s higher institution of learning in 2006, duplicating the county’s only public high school documents as a graduate of said institution in 1986, the association referred to the act as an Academic Crime and called on the UL administration to expel representative Cooper. According to findings conducted by the Alumni Association, at no point in time Tannue Cooper ever attended the C. H. Dewy High School in Western Liberia neither was he member of the 1986 graduating class as is being carried in his documents. The association sighted several points aimed at convincing the UL administration that the Representative at the National Legislature never attended the said public school. Members of the association, amongst other things, observed that the exact date of closing during the period Tannue Cooper claimed to have graduated from C. H. Dewey was on February 17, 1987 contrary to the December 15, 1986 closing date on the lawmaker’s documents. “It was also discovered that the date and month on Cooper’s documents are in hand print which also contradicts the well typed date and month on the original documents in possession of all of the original 1986 graduates. On the other hand, the registrar of the school who signed the original diplomas and transcripts in 1986 was Mr. Gaye Tyler contrary to the lawmaker’s documents which were signed by one Isaac Massaley who, according to 1986 records, was never in the employ of C. H. Dewey High School,” investigation conducted by the Alumni discovered. Representative Cooper’s high school document, which is also in the possession of this paper, revealed that Grand Cape Mount County Lawmaker Mr. Matthew V. Z Darploh, who is a very close friend of Tannue H. Cooper, served as principal in 1986 academic year while C. H. Dewey record at the time, disclosed that Mr. Eric Z. Zinnah was the original principal during 1986 instead of Darploh. Representative Darploh is a former principal of C.H. Dewey high school but the entity record has proved that he was never the head of the institution during the period under review. Ministry of Education record shows that Darbloh became principal of the school in the 90s during the civil war era and as such, all documents including Tannue Cooper’s that are signed by the Cape Mount Lawmaker during the period before the 90s are fake and needs to be questioned. However, according to our reporter who perused Tannue Cooper’s documents, alongside cross section of graduates of the class of 1986, discovered that there are consistent dissimilarities between the two documents. The reporter discovered that despite the Bomi lawmaker’s claim to have graduated from the C. H. Dewey High in 1986; the design of his documents are completely different from those held by a cross section of students who also graduated from the same school during said period. With the latest complaint filed by the school asking the UL administration to expel student Tannue H. Cooper for committing academic crimes, it is not yet clear as to whether UL administration will study the merits and demerits of the case and take prompt action against both student Cooper and Mathew V. Z. Darbloh who, the alumni association believes, provided the faked high school documents to his friend. The UL is on record for expelling students who fake documents to enroll at the nation’s highest institution of learning. In 1989, during the administration of Dr. Patrick Sayon, over 500 students at the institution who were believed to have forged high documents, were all expelled from the walls of the University. |
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