The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has arrested three suspected corps
members with fake certificates at the orientation camp in Taraba State.
NYSC State Director, Florence Yaakugh, said the suspects were nabbed during
the registration at the camp located in Ardo-Kola Local Council as they came
for registration and the verification officer discovered they carried fake
certificates and verification papers.
The suspects, Nasiru Yau, who claimed to have studied Mass Communication,
Shehu Murktar -Computer Science and Illiyasu Usman, Sociology, all from Isfop
University Cotonou, Benin Republic.
Yaakugh said they have been handed over to the police for further
investigation and prosecution.
The State Director, charging the security agents to do a thorough job,stated
that there is a similar case involving a female corps member, also a foreign
student but the verification officer was yet to conclude internal investigation
into her case.
Stating their own side of the matter, the suspected fake corps members
claimed they graduated from the institution but admitted to forging their
verification papers.