Arrest made over Grace Mugabe's 'fake' PhD
Zimbabwean anti-corruption investigators said Friday they had
arrested a university professor over the suspected fraudulent awarding
of a doctorate to former first lady Grace Mugabe.
Levi Nyagura, the vice chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe, was arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission following an investigation into the Ph.D.
It emerged that Grace was awarded the degree by the university in 2014 after just months of study.
The University of Zimbabwe Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura has been arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission for recommending the issuance of a PhD to Grace Mugabe. It turned out to be a fake PhD completed in a record three months. pic.twitter.com/LkVbKIGCLp— Hopewell Chin'ono (@daddyhope) February 16, 2018
Doctorates typically require several years of full-time research and writing.
"Nyagura
has been arrested. We cannot have people who award fake degrees,"
Goodson Nguni, a ZACC commissioner told AFP over the telephone.
The professor will be charged with abuse of office, he said, refusing to say whether Grace also faces arrest.
Grace Mugabe's apparent desire to succeed her 93-year-old husband prompted the army takeover that saw Robert Mugabe ousted from power in November last year.
A
copy of the 226-page doctoral thesis, titled "The Changing Social
Structure and Functions of the Family" was only published last month
following public calls for Grace to be stripped of her Ph.D.
Critics had argued that Grace, 52, had not actually studied or undertaken research to earn the doctorate.
She was personally capped by then-president Mugabe, who was also the chancellor of the university.
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