*This story was first published in January 2007 before the conduct of the highly flawed 2007 general elections, but the media and Nigeria's greedy political class ignored this story. The rest as they say, is now history...Read the story of how a fraudulent 'scholar' without a real academic background scammed a nation of 150 million people and still kept his job!
Maurice Iwu: The Full Story of a Fraudulent Umpire
SaharaReporters, New York
The debunking of Prof. Maurice Iwu’s claim of having obtained an undergraduate degree from the University of Bradford as revealed by Saharareporters that has now been topped by the University spokesperson indicating that Prof. Iwu’s “undergraduate degree or certificate” from Cameroon as presented to the University was neither verified nor was Prof Iwu graduate degree earned through in-class work. In essence, Prof. Iwu’s study at University of Bradford , as Saharareporters discovered was earned via research work (M.Pharm by research). However discrepancies in Iwu’s backgrounds appear to extend beyond his escapades in masking gaps in his educational qualifications. New information discovered by Saharareporters reveals the shady activities surrounding Maurice Iwu and his non-profit organization – Bioresources Development and Conservation Inc {BDCP} which Prof. Iwu founded and piloted as his research outfit since 1993.
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In 1999 at the 16th International Botanical Conference, Maurice Iwu made the announcement that he has found the cure for Ebola following his groundbreaking research under the auspices of his non-profit outfit-BDCP. Maurice Iwu indicated that Garcinia kola extract stopped the replication of the Ebola virus. Maurice Iwu followed his proclamation with the call that "Our limiting factor is funds. If we have a sponsor, we can do it in no time." Judging from available information, Prof. Iwu received lots of monies towards the development of his findings. As Saharareporters discovered, Prof. Iwu received millions of dollars. BDCP financial earnings as stated in Form 990 which BDCP presented to the United States Internal Revenue Service {IRS}. According to the form, BDCP amassed through grants and donors the amount of $425,947 in 1999, $367,870 in 2001, $640,917 in 2002 and $980,771 in 2003– totaling over $2.4million. It also stated clearly on the form that all of the monies were spent for the purpose of “medical research on the use of African herb for medicine”. However till date there appears no mention of further development of Garcinia kola extract to cure Ebola or any significant discoveries beyond some patents of which one of them was an “Alkaloids of Picralima Nitida used for treatment of Protozoal diseases” invented by Maurice Iwu et al., and assigned to the U.S. Secretary of the Army, Washington , D.C. U.S. Patent 5,290,553 issued March 1, 1994. Interestingly, neither U.S. nor European pharmaceutical houses have shown interest in following the leads.
In the Form 990 tax documents submitted to the United State Government, Prof. Iwu and his partners made a deliberate effort to hide the members to their Board of Trustees by avoiding to list their names in the form as expected. In the Article of Amendment of Bioresources Development and Conversation Program – completed in November 1994, it listed five members as members to the Board of Directors as Prof. Maurice Iwu, Dr. Lisa Messerole, Cosmas N. Obialor, Thomas F. Tata, and Dr. Chris Okunji.
It becomes automatic the obvious quandary over Prof. Maurice Iwu’s research outfit, the services it really provided and the money raised. This is as the tax forms for the year 2004, 2005 and 2006 appears missing and all attempts to retrieve them from principal officers of BDCP met a brickwall. Attempts at contacting Prof. Maurice Iwu and his partner D. Chris Okunji did not yield results, messages were left for Dr. Okunji that was not returned including e-mails messages to him, the only time our investigators spoke to him at his office in Maryland he promised to call back after a “crucial meeting” but never did. However, this dodgy behavior meshes with what a source who is a PhD holder in Pharmacy and a former colleague of Prof. Maurice Iwu at University of Nsukka told Saharareporters. The source stated, “I know that Iwu is not a Pharmacist! Knowing Iwu's penchant for publicity, he would have been featuring in all activities of Pharmacists but no, he does not because he is not one of us.” The source continues that “Prof. Maurice Iwu is not registered with the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN). Maurice Iwu couldn’t have his way in the Faculty of Pharmacy, UNN, to be Dean (the rules are clear on who qualifies to be Dean of a School of Pharmacy in Nigeria ; you must hold a 1st degree in Pharmacy!). The reason Prof. Maurice Iwu left to set up the Bioresources Conservation non-profit outfit that concentrated on herbal aspect of pharmacy is because it attracted a lot of funding from the US which he used to feather his nest”. Also, Saharareporters discovered that Prof. Iwu suspicious stints while at UNN reverberated in a manner that caused his promotion to be postponed still the year he was scheduled to leave UNN.
As discovered by Saharareporters, the BDCP no longer have a physical address in the United States . Even more interesting is that the address and telephone number previously stated in BDCP’s official website as their physical address and telephone number was suspiciously changed immediately following the first publication by Saharareporters on Prof. Iwu. The new telephone number was found to be an answering service and the address fictitious one; this is according to the telephone operator who answered the call. Also raising the bar of suspicion is the manner the address for BDCP has constantly changed. The latest change of address from Maryland to a doubtful address in Washington DC as Saharareporters have discovered is an attempt to avert further prosecution by the District Court of Maryland. This is because Department of Assessments and Taxation for Maryland State has barred Prof. Maurice Iwu’s BDCP from doing business in the State of Maryland since October 3, 1995 – confirmed by a letter signed by Paul Anderson of the Department of Assessments and Taxation for State of Maryland . Also, other documents obtained by Saharareporters’ investigators from the District Court of Montgomery County for State of Maryland shows that Prof. Iwu’ BDCP has thus been sued by Montgomery Court on charges of non-payment of taxes under case number 060100257832006. This is according to an affidavit signed by Robert Hagedoorn – the Chief, Division of Treasury, and N. Pedersen – Assistant County Attorney that states that the “defendant and BDCP owe personal property taxes, interest and penalties”. BDCP is scheduled to appear in court on April 4, 2007.
Sources intimately familiar with Prof. Maurice Iwu’s activities while in the United States confided in Saharareporters and revealed that Prof. Maurice Iwu did not only utilize his research outfit for research purposes alone, that he used the outfit as a cover to engage in what a source called “immigration activities” for friends, acolytes and coleagues. According to the source who also indicate that she was also a benefactor, revealed that Prof. Iwu used the research outfit to as a vehicle to bring in so-called researchers into America under the guise of research work. Another source who also spoke to Saharareporters in confidence disclosed that Prof. Iwu used his research outfit to bring her into the country and that she has co-authored a few of Prof. Iwu’s research publications. She goes on to add that she still resides in America illegally because she has not been able to change her status.
New reports also unearthed by Saharareporters indicate that Prof. Iwu’s BDCP have had its share of financial dishonesty. As gathered through Court records, Prof. Maurice Iwu may have deceived the US based Citibank in the amount of $45, 000 which he used to finance The International Congress on Industrial Utilization of Tropical Plants and Conservation of Biodiversity Conference held at Enugu in February 14-20, 1993 hosted by his non-profit corporation - Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme.
According to official documents obtained from Circuit Court of Montgomery, on Monday, August 10, 1992, Prof. Maurice Iwu’s son deposited a Check drawn on the United States Treasury Department in the amount of $5,000 payable to Prof. Iwu - into his father’s Citibank checking account {Acct. number XXXX2549}. Instead of crediting Prof. Iwu’s checking account with a $5,000 deposit, Citibank erroneously credited Prof. Iwu’s account with a $50,000 deposit on August 11, 1992. The error resulted in the erroneous overall credit to Prof. Iwu’s account in the amount of $45,000. Prof. Maurice Iwu who noticed the error on the following Monday August 17, 1992, acted immediately to transfer the sum of $20,000 into his savings account on the same day. Three days later which was on Friday August 21, 1992, he transferred the remaining $25,000 out of the checking account into the same savings account. On the same day of August 21, 1992, Prof. Maurice Iwu withdrew $35,000 from his savings account and converted it to a Cashier’s Check that was then transferred to London through Chevy Chase Bank in Maryland to National Westminster Bank in London . The $35,000 was then transferred to Bioresources Development and Conservation Program {BDCP} in Nigeria “to pay for expense connected with the International Congress being hosted by BDCP”.
According to the BDCP financial statement prepared for the event and signed by Dr. Chris Okunji – the Conference Treasurer, the transferred amount of $35,000 was recorded in the document as “Donations from Overseas through Prof. Iwu”. Prior to traveling to Enugu for the conference, Prof. Maurice Iwu was approached by the bank to repay the overage. He told the bank that he has completely spent the money because he thought that the money came from one of the grants he had applied for – this is before Prof. Iwu testified in court that he brought the overage to Citibank’s attention immediately he noticed it.
But before Prof. Iwu was dragged to court, Citibank and Prof. Iwu had reached an agreement on a repayment plan both verbally and in writing from Mr. Ruppert – Vice President of Citibank in a letter addressed to Prof. Iwu and dated December 23, 1992. The letter acknowledged Prof. Iwu’s initial payment of $5,000 and outlined the agreed repayment plan as requiring Prof. Iwu to repay $10,000 in January 1993 and the balance of $30,000 in March 1993. But Prof. Iwu stopped repaying and left for Enugu to facilitate his BDCP Conference.
Upon returning from his trip to Enugu, Prof. Iwu was informed by Citibank of the laps in payments in a letter by Mr. Ruppert dated March 18, 1993 which stated in part that, “on February 3, 1993 you called and left a voice mail message indicating that you had just arrived home from an overseas trip and you would not be able to make the $10,000 payment until the end of February 1993. To date we have not received this payment.” The Vice President of Citibank, Mr. Ruppert continued in the same letter to state that, “your unwillingness to commit to a satisfactory repayment schedule implies to us that you do not intend to repay your debt.” To this, Prof. Iwu became defiant in his refusal to repay the bank as agreed. This he stated in a letter dated March 29, 1993 and addressed to the Vice President of Citibank – Mr. Patrick Ruppert. He states, “I was never indebted to you and that this whole transaction arose because Citibank messed up my project account which I operated at the bank”. In this same letter, he states, “I have been away to Europe and Africa since December 18, 1992 on previously scheduled travel in connection with my work. I returned to the USA briefly in the first week of February and promptly informed you of my inability to make any payments to you by the end of February and that I was traveling. I discussed with you during the meeting, I will pay $5,000 on or about November 15, and make subsequent payments in February, May, September and December 1993”. If, however, I receive a reimbursement from UNIDO {based on the request I have submitted} then I will pay the entire amount in full by March 1993. Prof. Iwu however made additional payments that total up to $17,000 before being dragged to court by Citibank seeking reimbursement of the remaining $28,000. Following nearly two years of litigation, both parties reached a settlement agreement and mutual release on February 22 1995 that mandated Prof. Iwu to repay the said amount. The details of the agreement stipulated for Prof. Maurice Iwu to make a first repayment to Citibank in the amount $4,000 no later than March 10, 1995, and then a second repayment of $4,000 on April 15, 1995. The remaining $20,000 owed will be repaid through monthly automatic debits of $750 into a new Prof. Maurice Iwu’s checking account which the courts stipulated that Prof. Iwu must open no later March 10, 1995. The debits were said to begin March 10, 1995 to be fully repaid in May 1997. Saharareporters has no information that indicates whether the amount was eventually repaid. Saharareporters placed calls to Samuel Iwu and left messages that have not been returned.
Also, Saharareporters discovered from official documents obtained from the District Court of Maryland for Montgomery County that on October 19, 1998, Prof. Iwu and Dr. Okunji both serving as President and Treasurer respectively to the BDCP received a $25,000 loan on behalf of Bioresources Development and Conservation Program Inc {BDCP} from Riggs National Bank. Prof. Maurice Iwu who acted as the personal guarantor for BDCP failed to repay the loan within the stipulated timeframe allocated. The bank in turn dragged Iwu’s BDCP to court. Interestingly, a Cashier Check drawn out of Chevy Chase Bank in Bethesda, Maryland was presented on December 4, 2006, by Samuel Iwu {Maurice Iwu’s son} in the amount $25,619.08 for repayment of the loan. Why the loan was suddenly repaid after Prof. Iwu mounted the throne of INEC becomes the obvious question, one may responsibly ask. As sources who to Saharareporters state, it points suspicion to the origin of the money and nature of dubiousness surrounding the activities at Prof. Maurice Iwu’s BDCP.
Careful examination of the character exhibited by Prof. Maurice Iwu from both his backgrounds and current activities as the INEC Chairman strongly points to a man who habitually makes false promises and failed promises. His grandiose utterance that he has found the cure to Ebola messes with his latest promise to have the candidate register available to the Nigerian public on Monday February 5, 2007. Both have turned out to be broken promise. Other indicators such as his dubious escapades with Citibank and his other creditors point to the same trait of making promises that he can fulfill. For the elections of 2003, INEC registered about 60million voters but in 2007 was only able to register 57million. The concern is whether Prof. Maurice Iwu would be able to deliver a free and fair election as promised. The ball is now in the court of everyday Nigerians to determine. Prof.
Maurice Iwu: The unverified umpire with a fake degree
SaharaReporters, New York
New information gathered by Saharareporters point to the INEC Chairman – Prof. Iwu as a stooge and/or a possible victim of the Abuja power brokers. This is according to information generated through cursory investigation by our team of investigators. Prof. Maurice Iwu, a research scientist, Maryland USA resident, who upon the recommendation of his longtime family friend and colleague UNN, Nsukka, Senator Ugochukwu Uba, got the appointment to the position of INEC Chairman, is believed to have some unpleasant questions to answer - questions the power structure in Abuja may be using against him as blackmail to keep him under control.
According to the public information available on the Independent National Electoral Commission’s website (www.inecnigeria.com), the commission Chairman – Prof. Maurice Iwu, obtained his primary education at Christ the King School Aba, his secondary school at St. Pius X college at Bodo-Ogoni, his professional training at the University of Bradford, England where he received a Master of Pharmacy degree in 1976 and a PhD in 1978.
What appear puzzling is that there is no mention of where and when he obtained his undergraduate degree, a trick made possible by the professional nature of Pharmacy (According to Academic experts students can earn a master’s degree in Pharmacy if they go the long haul). However, new information shows that the reason for omitting the mention of Prof. Maurice Iwu’s undergraduate degree from the INEC website may not be a mistake after all. This became clear as Saharareporters made contact with University of Bradford in the United Kingdom to inquire whether Prof. Maurice Iwu obtained an undergraduate degree from the institution. The University of Bradford, whose reaction to the request appeared suspiciously too cagey, as they repeatedly, insisted that a letter of permission be obtained from Prof. Iwu before they release the requested basic information, when they first released any information at all, it was a rehash of what INEC had on its website. Shortly after they succumbed to the pressure mounted by Saharareporters and spoke through their Senior Press Officer - Oliver Tipper stating via an e-mail that, “He {Prof. Maurice Iwu} was enrolled here in 1975 for the Masters degree in Pharmacy, but we have on our records that he studied Pharmacy in Cameroon during the late 1960s before coming to Bradford”. Further efforts to get the University of Bradford to release the name of the University in Cameroon that issued Professor Iwu with undergraduate degree met legal resistance from Bradford; they instead cited a 1998 British Law that bars universities from disclosing private information.
Perplexed by the information given by University of Bradford which indicate that Prof. Iwu graduated with a degree in pharmacy in the late 1960s which places his age at about 19 years old at the time of graduation, Saharareporters approached the Spokesperson for INEC – Pastor Segun Adeogun and made the request for an interview from Prof. Iwu’s plus his official curriculum vitae but Prof. Iwu did not respond to the requests and the INEC spokesperson, Pastor Segun Adeogun in turn directed us to the INEC website for Prof. Iwu’ curriculum vitae, when we reminded him that the vital information about his undergrad degree was missing, he advised us to make do with the “INEC summary”. After repeated appeals for the curriculum vitae, it became apparent that the duo of Prof. Maurice Iwu and Pastor Segun Adeogun maybe resisting due to a particular reason. However in a last pitch effort by our investigators, Pastor Segun Adeogun finally buckled and told our investigators that the official INEC records show that the Prof. Maurice Iwu obtained his undergraduate degree, Master degree and PhD degree from University of Bradford between 1972 and 1978. That not withstanding, the resistance by Pastor Adeogun remained suspicious.
Interestingly, Saharareporters was able to unearth the reason for the resistance. And it points to the parallel background of Prof. Maurice Iwu that does not mesh with his professional claims. Information gathered on Prof. Iwu’s background placed Prof. Iwu at Biafra Holy Rosary School of Pharmacy, Ummuna Orlu from 1968-1969 where he dropped out in Class 4 – coinciding with the same period he indicated to the University of Bradford to have graduated from a University in Cameroon. Following his stint at the school of pharmacy, he undertook a course in Ivory Coast for ‘Dispensing Pharmacy Technician in Compounding’, under the Biafran-Ivory Coast training scholarships for Biafrans. The course was for two months. Following the end of the Biafran war, he landed a job as a dispensing chemist at a chemist in Enugu at 35 Zik Avenue, Uwani- Enugu opposite Leventis stores. He held this job between 1970 and 1973. While working at the Chemist as a dispenser, he told most of his patients he was a "doctor".
Supplementing the parallel career that appears contradictory to Prof Iwu’s claims, sources close to him told Saharareporters that Prof. Maurice Iwu forged his undergraduate degree to gain entry into University of Bradford in the UK. According to the sources, Maurice took his late brother’s certificate Christopher Iwu and forged it to enable him enter the university. Christopher Iwu who was a Biafran official born in the forties, died during the civil war -He attended St. Patrick’s college in Calabar, Nigeria.
For this reason, questions remain for Prof. Maurice Iwu to answer regarding his claims to have attended undergraduate school in Cameroon. Since BRADFORD spokesperson says Iwu came with a ‘Pharmacy degree’ from Cameroon, then, was Prof. Maurice Iwu holding a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy at the age of 19 or less since his INEC profile puts his date of birth at April 21st, 1950? Was he in Cameroon studying pharmacy while at the same time dispensing drugs in Enugu? Could that explain why his students at Nsukka complained regularly that Prof. Maurice Iwu was a half-baked Professor?Also, could it be why Prof. Maurice Iwu’s research has virtually been on herbal medicine?
Also, Saharareporters spoke to former colleagues of Professor Iwu regarding his much talked about ‘activist side’, and according to an Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) activist that knows Prof. Maurice Iwu quite well, “Prof. Iwu was a traitor who betrayed them under the military regime of Babangida”. One of the students he betrayed at Nsukka during the same military regime of Babangida was one Emma Ezeazu. His saboteur-like behavior towards Emma Ezeazu resulted in the expulsion of Mr. Ezeazu.
Prior to Prof. Maurice Iwu’s relocation to Nigeria to assume the post of INEC Chairman, along with having worked extensively in the Maryland area of United States of America as an expert in the area of herbal medicines, he had owned and operated a research center called Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme. Saharareporters made several attempts to make contact with Prof. Maurice Iwu’s colleagues but to no avail. Telephone calls placed to the telephone number of his Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme in Maryland indicated that it had been changed to a Washington DC number which is now being handled by an answering service - suggesting that the Business has either closed down or is being used as a ‘shell’ office to execute other activities as Bioresource’s website still listed offices in Guinea, UK, Cameroon and Enugu (Nigeria). We also contacted the Division of Experimental Therapeutics at the Walter Reed Army Research Institute where Professor Iwu worked was a senior research associate according to the information on the INEC’s website but got the voicemail of one Col. (Dr.) Allen Magill and we left a message requesting for Prof. Iwu’s curriculum vitae but Col. (Dr.) Allen Magill did not return our phone calls. Also, an e-mail was sent to the Public Affairs officer of Walter Reed Army Research Institute requesting for Prof. Iwu’s curriculum vitae but did not receive a reply at press time. However, Saharareporters was able to contact one person who worked with Professor Iwu at Walter Reed AIR who goes by the name Dr. Christopher Okunji. Dr. Okunji who is currently a contractor at the US National Institute of Health in talking briefly with our investigators indicated that he could not speak on his professional relationship with Prof. Maurice Iwu citing workplace media gag. What was striking about Dr. Okunji was his reaction to the mere mention of Prof. Iwu’s name in conjunction to his professional career.
However, with the call by nearly 40 Nigerian Senators on the afternoon of January 17, 2007 for the resignation of the INEC Chairman, many eyebrows have begun to be raised in wonderment as to what might be brewing within the corridors of power in Abuja and the Obasanjo electoral machinery.
Informed players within the corridors of influence in Abuja believe that what appears to be a brewing tussle between the two entities fits a pattern that has been put in place for effective manipulation mechanism to ensure that the players within INEC and the Police remain subjects and puppets of the power brokers in Abuja, specifically the Peoples Democratic Party. This is achieved through the placement of weak and compromised personalities in sensitive positions within the INEC, the Police and OTHER AGENCIES OVERSEEING the 2007 elections to enable for easy manipulation.
As Saharareporters has also discovered, the current INEC Secretary Alhaji Abubakar B. Jauro is scheduled to retire in December 2006, even if we were to go by what is publicly published by INEC which states that Alhaji Jauro was born in January of 1947 which makes him due for retirement in January 2007 because the mandatory retirement for civil servants is 60. However the information reaching Saharareporters indicates that the President Obasanjo and his cronies in the PDP have decided not publicly announce the retirement until after the electioneering period and when Saharareporters confronted the INEC Spokesperson Pastor Segun Adeogun he took a deep sigh and told us to contact the Head of the Civil Service. All efforts to reach the head of service – Alhaji Yayala Ahmed failed. In the same manner, with which President Obasanjo’s extended the retirement of the Inspector General of Police - Mr. Sunday Ehindero, he extended the Commissioner of Police in Abuja FCT – Lawrence Alobi. The extended retirement of Mr. Sunday Ehindero and Lawrence Alobi is believed to have its reasons wrapped in the upcoming elections and the role the police is expected to play in what many experts fear as the PDP grand plan to retain power in 2007 at all cost.
So the combination of a compromised INEC Chairman with a heavily tainted educational background, a compromised INEC Secretary pleading for extension of retirement and a completely compromised Inspector General of Police who already had his retirement extended, automatically lends to the potent question of this season. And that is, whether the President wants to leave power? Another question worthy of answers is whether the Office of the President is in the know of Prof. Maurice Iwu’s educational background and then uses it to keep him controlled? Whether the call by the 40 Senators for Prof. Maurice Iwu to resign concerns his educational background? Or, whether it concerns the soiled relationship between Senator Ugochukwu Uba and chris uba on one hand and his brother ‘Dr’ Emmanuel Nnamdi Uba? Or, whether it has to do with the influx of petitions to the INEC office of which the folks in the power structure of PDP believe that some of the prime candidates may face disqualification by an untainted INEC chair?
The latest development coming out of Abuja may shed some light to the dubiousness surrounding the ongoing activities in and around INEC and the power structure in Abuja. According to updates received by Saharareporters, Mr. Emmanuel Nnamdi Uba and Florence Ita Giwa, in attempts to quell the brewing brouhaha in the house of the National Assembly, were dispatched to ‘pacify’ the senators who had previously passed a vote of no confidence on Prof. Maurice Iwu just a day before their visit. The duo of Uba and Ita Giwa were said to have visited some of the key Senators with heavy wads of cash to offer them as bribes. The next day, following their visit, Prof. Iwu was suddenly ‘pardoned’ by the Senate and given a clean bill of health complete with VOTE OF CONFIDENCE at their next sitting.
UPDATE: University of Bradford debunks "Prof" Maurice Iwu's story
www.saharareporters.com
Latest e-mail exchanged with saharareporters by the University of Bradford indicates that INEC Chairman, Maurice Iwu did present a "Certificate of Pharmacy" obtained from the National University of Cameroun, Younde in 1968 contrary to his claims that he never studied in Cameroun. The university spokesperson also refutes the 1972 story, instead he stated categoricaly that Iwu arrived at the University of Bradford on May 10 1974.
Full e-mail below:
'' Your most recent enquiry has been passed to me by my colleague Richard Wheelhouse. Following enquiries by your colleague Omoyele Sowore last week, I feel it is my place to pick this up from here. I have read your article and see that there are some serious allegations and some contradictory statements being made about Mr Iwu's qualifications. I hope the following information will be sufficient to satisfy your enquiries.
1. I can confirm beyond doubt that Mr Iwu did NOT take an undergraduate degree at the University of Bradford. In a student registration form for his Masters course, he declares that his date of arrival in the UK was 10 May 1974, ruling out any involvement with the University prior to this date.
2. In terms of his admittance to the masters course, the following was taken into consideration: Mr Iwu's record states that he achieved a 'Certificate en Pharmacien' from the Universite Federale ou Cameroun Younde, which he stated he completed in 1968.
Mr Iwu also undertook a six month preliminary (or access) course in Pharmacy in 1974 to ratify his knowledge and skills and prove he was able to undertake the masters programme. As part of this preliminary course, he passed a qualifying examination equivalent to Special Honours Pharmacognosy. This paper was examined by Professor J W Fairbairn of London University who concurred with the marking and approved his registration to the Masters course at Bradford.
I hope this is satisfactory. If you have any further requests for information, please get back in touch with me in the first instance. If you wish to quote any of the above in an article, please refer to the source of the information as 'A spokesman for the University of Bradford."
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Prof. Maurice Iwu: Full details of communication between Sowore and Bradford University
Following spirited attempts by Prof. Maurice Iwu, to run away from the truth regarding his academic qualifications, we hereby tender to our readers a full copy of our communication(s) with the University of Bradford, Bradford UK.
* In order to reduce the amount of time wasted on this very important story, we have requested via a text message to Professor Maurice Iwu (INEC Chairman)a letter of authority addressed to University of Bradford at the Department of Pharmacy authorizing Bradford to release his academic records to Saharareporters. So far he has refused to acknowledge our request let alone grant the request.We are still waiting.
From: Omoyele Sowore
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:14 PM
To: O Tipper
Subject: RE: Maurice Iwu
Dear Oliver:
Thank you very much for the assistance thus far. It is well appreciated.
As you cited the restrictions as dictated by the British Parliament Protection Act of 1998 on the disclosure of personal data or information, we understand that you are not are able to go further with the release of the requested information.
However on the issue of degree verification, since the British Parliament Protection Act of 1998 does not bar you from speaking on this issue - then we would want to know whether Bradford do degree verification as of 1975, if so, was this particular student's degree verified?
-Omoyele Sowore
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From: O.Tipper@*****
To: sowore@*****
Subject: RE: Maurice Iwu
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:21:08 +0000
Omoyele
I don’t think I can help you with your enquiries any further. The University of Bradford has legally provided you with all the details it can about this individual, but under the British Parliament’s Data Protection Act 1998, we are not permitted to disclose personal information relating to students that does not concern the University.
Regards
Oliver
Oliver Tipper
Senior Press Officer
Marketing and Communications
University of Bradford (UK)
BD7 1DP
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From: Omoyele Sowore
Sent: 23 January 2007 17:11
To: O Tipper
Subject: RE: Maurice Iwu
Dear Oliver
Thanks for your good help in clarifying the date of admission. It is highly appreciated. I have been involved in getting degree verification done in the US as a reporter for a while, but it was a bit challenging getting it done with your school until you came on board. If you don't mind helping further, we would like to know which university in Cameron issued Mr. Maurice Iwu with the undergraduate Pharmacy degree that Bradford admitted him with in 1975. When was this degree issued in the 60's (please include possible Month and year)? To enable us complete our report/profile, we would be contacting his undergrad university. Does Bradford do degree verification as of 1975, if so was this particular student's degree verified?
Please endeavor to help clear this final part so that can proceed to conclude this matter on schedule.
Accept our regards and thanks for your excellent and prompt communications.
Omoyele Sowore
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> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Maurice Iwu
> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:19:57 +0000
>
> Hi
>
> I've just double checked with our student registry department and Maurice
> Iwu did not do an undergraduate degree at Bradford.
>
> He was enrolled here in 1975 for the Masters degree in Pharmacy, but we have
> on our records that he studied Pharmacy in Cameroon during the late 1960s
> before coming to Bradford.
>
> I hope this helps
> regards
> Oliver
>
> ------
> Oliver Tipper
> Senior Press Officer
> Marketing and Communications
> University of Bradford (UK)
> BD7 1DP
___________________________
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sahara Reporters [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 22 January 2007 17:55
> To: 'O Tipper'
> Subject: RE: Maurice Iwu
>
> Hi Oliver,
>
> Thank you!
> Can you kindly provide the date he was admitted to University of Bradford.
> We require dates and possible information about his undergraduate degree.
> Regards,
> Omoyele Sowore
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: O Tipper [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:14 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Maurice Iwu
>
> Dear Sowore
>
> Following our conversation earlier today, I can confirm the following about
> Maurice Iwu.
>
> He graduated from the University of Bradford with a Masters in Pharmacy
> (MPharm. by research) in July 1976, and gained a PhD in the field of
> Pharmacy in July 1978.
>
> I hope this is satisfactory, sorry for any delay you've encountered with us.
>
>
> Regards
> Oliver
>
> ------
> Oliver Tipper
> Senior Press Officer
> Marketing and Communications
> University of Bradford (UK)
> BD7 1DP
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