In a desperate bid for closure, Alvin Ilenre, an Edo state graduate, set ablaze his university certificates, raising questions about the rationale behind such a drastic act.
Speaking with The Punch Newspaper, in an interview published on Sunday, December 3, Alvin, who studied History and International Studies at Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo state, said he has been out of jobs since February 2022.
He said all he had been doing since leaving school was hustling, and he remained unemployed. Speaking on his main reason for burning some of his documents, as seen in a viral video, Alvin said he needed closure, and the certificates were useless to him. He stated thus: “I burnt them because I was going through some things and I needed to give myself closure. That was why I burnt them.”
“I didn’t know where I dropped my secondary school certificate amid all these, but the certificates I burnt were my university, primary school leaving, and National Youth Service Corps certificates. “Also, there were certificates I didn’t burn. I need to state that I’m a minister of God, a trained minister even though I won’t mention my ministry. I didn’t burn the certificates from the ministry, because I was impacted by the grace of God over there so, I never burnt those. But I burnt the educational certificates that are useless in the country.”
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