Shuaib Ibrahim, director-general
of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has warned that any unqualified
graduate that makes himself or herself available at the orientation camp would
be arrested.
Ibrahim gave the warning on
Thursday, when the scheme renewed its partnership with the Nigeria Universities
Commission (NUC).
The partnership is aimed to add
credibility to the mobilisation process and prevent participation of fake
graduates from national service.
According to NAN, the NYSC DG
noted that since his assumption of office, he realised that some of the corps
members were returned by their employers to NYSC on the grounds that they were
not qualified to teach or some them could not read and so on.
To address the challenge, Ibrahim
said the scheme partnered with NUC to organise a meeting with the registrars
and student affairs officers from west African region some other African
countries.
“During the interface with the
Registrars and Student Affairs Officers, the scheme reiterated its position
that it will not tolerate such practice,” he said.
“The good thing that came out of
that meeting was that, some of the fake universities from Benin Republic were
closed down and the meeting has also strengthened our understanding with NUC.“
Ibrahim emphasised that any
unqualified graduate that made himself or herself available at the orientation
camp would be arrested.
He also said that the scheme had
arrested several numbers of fake corps members, recently in the last
orientation and handed them over to the police for prosecution.
Ibrahim said the scheme also
convened a meeting with vice-chancellors, rectors and NYSC mobilisation
officers from universities and polytechnics, nationwide, to address the
challenge.
He said the meeting was hinged on
the need to add credibility on the mobilisation process in the country.
“Under my watch, I cannot
tolerate any unqualified person be mobilised for the national service,“ he
said.
Ibrahim said the scheme had also
introduced an indemnity form for list of prospective corps members forwarded to
NYSC by institutions.
He explained that in the
indemnity form, the institutions would sign, affirming that the list of
prospective corps members they forwarded to NYSC was genuine.
According to him, if there are
infractions on the list, the institution concerned will be blacklisted from
further mobilisation until they put their house together.
The NYSC boss, who disclosed that
“Batch C“ orientation would commence by the end of October or first week of
November, warned those with fake documents to stay away from the orientation
camps.
He further disclosed that the
scheme had introduced the inscription of date of birth on the certificate to
prevent deliberate repeat of national service.
According to Ibrahim, NYSC has
also introduce physical verification of certificates of foreign students in the
six-geopolitical zones, saying that those found to be in possession of fake
documents will apprehended.
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