The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC), Brig Gen YD Ahmed has said that the discharge certificate being paraded
by Enugu State Governor-elect, Barr Peter Mbah, was not issued by the body.
Brig Gen Ahmed who was a guest on Arise Television’s
breakfast programme, Friday, the argument on whether Mbah has a valid NYSC
certificate or not, does not arise because he has told the PDP candidate in the
2023 governorship elections that what he presented as a certificate was fake.
“He came to me and I called my director to confirm the
certificate and we discovered that the certificate was fake and I told him…I
wonder how elites who have gone to school will resort to black market
certificates.
“Everyone knows how we issue our certificate in NYSC we
don’t give it in hotel rooms or houses,” the DG said.
Peter Mbah has reportedly filed a case against the NYSC,
allegedly claiming N20 billion in damages for the injuries he claims have been
caused him by the controversies surrounding his discharge certificate.
The controversy surrounding Mbah’s discharge certificate
blew open in February 2023, when the NYSC, in response to an inquiry by a
non-governmental organisation, released a letter stating that the certificate
submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was not
issued by them.
In April 2023, another letter repudiating the certificate
was again issued following another inquiry by an Aba-based law firm, Silver
& Co. Associates.
On the purported suit by Mbah, the NYSC Director General
said he was not aware of any suit, and will not respond based on hearsay.
“Concerning the suit, the NYSC has not been sued. I am yet
to see anything from any court, all you are saying, I have been hearing from
outside. I have not received any court order, but I must tell you, we do not
tolerate certificate racketeering. If it is from any of our staff, that is not
our problem. But that certificate is not from us,” he asserted.
Peter Mbah’s NYSC discharge certificate has snowballed into
a national issue, drawing attention to the possibility of many public office
holders getting into office with fake qualifications.
Recently, Mbah, through his lawyer, Emeka Ozoani, SAN, had
obtained an order from a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, restraining the
NYSC and any of its personnel from commenting on the controversial certificate.
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