The Vice-Chancellor of Zimbabwe’s
oldest university has been arrested over the suspected fraudulent awarding of a
doctoral degree to former first lady, Mrs. Grace Mugabe.
The degree was awarded when
ousted president, Robert Mugabe was the university chancellor.
The Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Zimbabwe, Levi Nyagura was arrested on Friday by the Zimbabwe
Anti-Corruption Commission following an investigation into the controversial
PhD.
Grace, whose husband resigned in
November under pressure from the military, received a doctorate in 2014 amid allegations
that she just spent months of study whereas doctorates typically require
several years of full-time research and writing.
Anti-Corruption Commission
spokeswoman, Phyllis Chikundura, said the university should provide the “paper
trail” showing Grace Mugabe’s registration and academic progression but
Sociology department lecturers said they had no records of Mugabe’s work.
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 the 52-year-old to be
stripped of her PhD.
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