Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Yushau Ahmed, has alleged that one of the “graduates” fraudulently mobilised for the scheme by University of Calabar, Cross Rivers State, is a bread seller who did not attend the institution.
Ahmed vowed that all illegally mobilised corps members from the university would be prosecuted.
According to a statement signed by Director, Information and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa, 54 corps members illegally mobilised by the university have been demobilised by the NYSC management.
He said 19 among them that initially registered online for mobilisation had been prevented from service, while four Certificates of National Service for other culprits were not produced by the scheme.
This is coming on the back of 101 certificates that were recently voided by the scheme, making it 178.
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Ahmed commended the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor Florence Obi for her forthrightness to have earlier hinted the scheme on the mobilisation of unqualified graduates from her institution.
He insisted that the scheme would leave no stone unturned in sanitizing its mobilisation process.
“The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar came here to report that she observed some names appeared on the institution’s list and they ought not to have been there.
“She checked the list the school gave us and I told her that their certificates would be invalidated.
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“Previously, a bread seller was mobilized on the graduation list from the same institution. There are bad eggs in many places that generate matriculation numbers and courses for their candidates,” Ahmed said.
Ahmed reiterated that the Scheme would intensify its collaboration with all the Heads of Corps Producing Institutions and relevant stakeholders in the country in order to stop the menace.
He added that any failure in the mobilisation process from any school falls on the integrity of the management of such institution.
“Those who are responsible for imputing the data of graduates should be people of integrity,” he said.
He called on all employers of labour in the country to verify the authenticity of Certificates of National Service being presented for job placement from the NYSC.