“… 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”
In its continuous efforts to prevent unqualified graduates from being called up, management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has busted a total of Fifty-Four individuals who were illegally mobilized by the University of Calabar.
The affected fake enrollees have been demobilized by the NYSC Management.
NYSC Director General, Brigadier General Yusha’u D. Ahmed disclosed this on Friday in Abuja, adding that the affected individuals shall be prosecuted accordingly.
Nineteen (19) other fraudsters who attempted to execute online registration for the scheme were flagged and curtailed. Certificates of completion of four (4) had been withdrawn.
Earlier, One Hundred and One (101) certificates were recently voided by the Scheme, making a total of One Hundred and Seventy-Eight (178).
The Director General also showered encomiums on the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor Florence Obi for her forthrightness by providing the intel which the Service management acted upon.
Speaking further, General Ahmed said NYSC would leave no stone unturned towards sanitizing its mobilisation process, disclosing, “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.”
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”, the DG said.
He emphasised that “Those who are responsible for imputing the data of graduates should be people of integrity.”
