Admission scandal rocks IRIC

The International Relations Institute of Cameroon (IRIC) is making headline news for the wrong reason.

The institution recently released two separate student admission lists in the department of International Relations and diplomacy within a period of 48 hours.

Our reporter gathered that the list which was made public on Friday evening reportedly came from a panel of thirteen members including senior lecturers of the institution, professors Alain Didier Olinga, Adolphe Minkoa She, Jean-Emmanuel Pondi and Pascal Messanga Nyamding.

The controversy caused a stir when in the first list, the name of one Estelle Nti appeared second and was confirmed by an official announcement of the list on CRTV radio.

By some strange reason, Estelle Nti and other candidates whose names had appeared in the official list that was read over national radio, disappeared the following day.

Interestingly, the first list included 15 admitted students and a waiting list with four (4) names.

The new list had 15 students, but there was no waiting list attached to it. But somehow, some candidates from the waiting list were clandestinely declared admitted.

Local media reports say that some kind of politics may have happened inexplicably on the list between the Ministry of Higher Education and the Presidency of the Republic.

Sources have observed that the Director of IRIC, Pierre-Emmanuel Tabi was stunned by the scandal.

This is not the first time, admission list for entrance into the International Relations Institute has been hit by such a scam.

In 2013, nine candidates who were declared admitted were allegedly ordered to leave the faculty by the Minister of Higher Education, Jacques Fame Ndongo and replaced with students from his constituency.