Prison Inmate Bags PGD, Masters Degree In Awka

• “We could have given him the certificates with his colleagues during the convocation in Abuja, but because of his peculiar situation, we had to bring the two-in-one certificate to him.”

An inmate at the Awka Correctional Centre in Anambra, Jude Onwuzulike, has bagged the certificates of Post Graduate Diploma and Masters of Science degrees in Information Technology from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Awka Study Centre on Wednesday, June 30.

Mr Felix Edoka, Registrar, NOUN, while presenting the certificates at the Awka Correctional Centre, lauded the inmate for achieving the feat despite being in prison.

The Registrar represented by the Deputy Registrar (Academics), Oladipo Ajayi, urged other prisoners to take advantage of the programme to become educated.

Also speaking, the director of NOUN Awka Centre, Scholastica Ezeribe, said, “The inmate defended the certificates online under strict supervision. This shows that distance and space were no barriers to interested students of the institution.

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“We could have given him the certificates with his colleagues during the convocation in Abuja, but because of his peculiar situation, we had to bring the two-in-one certificate to him.”

The prison comptroller, Patrick Chukwuemeka, thanked the programme facilitators for their assistance to the graduate, appealing to other inmates to imitate Mr Onwuzulike.

“The correctional centre is not only for confinement, but opportunities for the inmates to upgrade themselves academically as well as learn skills that will make them better persons after their jail term,” he said.

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