The National Youth Service Corps has disclosed that a total of 65 intending corps members have been arrested during its just concluded Batch B Stream 2 Orientation Course, for allegedly tendering fake certificates.
The NYSC authorities who disclosed the fraudulent act on Monday 23rd September, 2019 to newsmen revealed that the fraudsters, who were caught at orientation camps across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, had been handed over to the police for further investigation and possible prosecution.
It was reported that in Katsina about six people were caught and the NYSC identified two of them as Blessing Offor, who paraded a Bachelor of Science certificate in Insurance and Actuarial Science, and Chidinma Ngozi, who submitted a certificate in Bachelor of Arts in English Education.
Also in Taraba State, the NYSC caught six persons with three of the suspects identified as; Nasiru Yau, Shehu Mukhtar and Illiyasu Usman.
The three persons all claimed to have finished from the Isfop University of Cotonou in the Republic of Benin.
In Kano State, the NYSC had said it could not register 108 prospective corps members posted to the state for presenting questionable certificates and other infractions.
The Kano State Coordinator of the scheme, Mr Ladan Baba, also said that 1,700 prospective corps members were deployed to the state, but 1,592 were registered.
While reacting to the issue, the NYSC Director of Press and Public Relations, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, noted that the NYSC Director-General, Brig-Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim, warned that unqualified home-based and foreign-trained Nigerians would no longer pass through the scheme.
