Fake corps members arrested
during the Batch B National Youth Service Corps Orientation Exercise have been
prosecuted and jailed.
The NYSC in a
statement said the Director-General, Brig Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim, stated this at
the Kubwa Orientation Camp in the Federal Capital Territory, on Monday, adding
that the scheme’s clampdown on fake graduates had brought sanity into the
process.
The DG disclosed that the
corps members who were arrested in the
Batch B streams 1 and 2, had been prosecuted and jailed in the past week.
Brig Gen Ibrahim, said,
“During the 2019 Batch C mobilisation, over 20,000 foreign-trained Nigerians
uploaded online for mobilisation but through our measures of physical
verification, only 3,420 showed up. This is to tell you that we are good,
because I warned them earlier that if they are not qualified, they should not
show up.
He also went on to say
“We have not arrested any fake corps member in camps in this current
orientation exercise going on.”
Commending the
contribution of corps members to the Kogi and Bayelsa states’ elections, the DG
said the scheme had enhanced the electoral process in the country.
On the payment of
minimum wage to corps members, Ibrahim insisted that the corps members should
wait for the payment of the approved minimum wage by the Federal Government.
It will be recalled
that the NYSC in September noted that it handed over 85 fake corps members to
the police for trial after they were arrested in camps nationwide with fake
documents.
