In order to avoid awarding Certificates of National Service to those who are not eligible, the Management of the National Youth Service Corps claims to have demobilized 54 University of Calabar graduates who were illegally mobilized.
This was said in a statement on Friday night that was signed by Eddy Megwa, the Scheme’s director of information and public relations.
This was revealed in Abuja on Friday by Brigadier-General Yusha’u Ahmed, the Director General of the NYSC, who also said that the unauthorized graduates would face appropriate legal action.
Of the 54, he added that 19 of them who had initially registered online for mobilization had been barred from serving, and four (4) of the other offenders’ Certificates of National Service were not generated by the Scheme.
Recall that the NYSC earlier on Monday revoked the certificates of 101 UNICAL graduates who were enrolled in the program unlawfully and were expected to graduate between 2021 and 2023.
The Pro-Chancellor of the University, DIG Udom Ekpoudom (retd.), praised the Scheme for revealing fake graduates who had been fraudulently mobilized after the certificates were declared invalid.
He also promised to take action against the staff members who had been involved in the mobilization of these fake graduates from the university.
The NYSC DG said that an illegal mobilization of a bread vendor had occurred from the University, and praised Professor Florence Obi, the Vice-Chancellor, for alerting the NYSC to the illegal mobilizations.
“The University of Calabar’s Vice-Chancellor came to report that she saw certain names on the roster of the institution that shouldn’t have been there. I informed her that their certificates would be void when she looked over the list the school had provided. Congratulations, Vice-Chancellor.
According to the DG, “there are bad eggs in many places that generate matriculation numbers and courses for their candidates. Previously, a bread seller was mobilized on the graduation list from the same institution.”
He went on to say that in order to put an end to the threat, the Scheme would step up its cooperation with heads of corps producing institutions and other pertinent national stakeholders.
Ahmed continued, saying, “Those who are responsible for imputing the data of graduates should be people of integrity.” Any breakdown in the mobilization process from any school is a result of the integrity of the management of that particular establishment.
He urged all labor firms in the nation to confirm the legitimacy of National Service Certificates submitted by the NYSC in order to place workers.
