Posted on: 10:44 Sat, 14 Nov 2015



The National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC) has arrested seven persons
for allegedly purchasing fake
exemption and exclusion certificates
of the Scheme.

Daily Independent however learnt
that three of the suspect escaped
during interrogation at the scheme’s
headquarters.

Addressing journalists in Abuja on
Friday, the Director, Certification,
Alhaji Hudu Aliyu Taura, said the
suspects, who claimed to be
graduates from various institutions,
were detected through the
certificates sent to the organization
by their employers for verification.
He said the suspects confessed they
got the certificates from other
sources, adding that they paid
certain amount of money to get
them.

Taura, who denied the involvement
of any staff of the scheme in the act,
revealed that the management have
compiled the report with their
written statement which would be
handed over to the security
personnel for further necessary
actions.

While appealing to other employers
of labour to forward their employees
certificates claimed to be issued by
the NYSC for verification, the
Director also urged them to always
contact NYSC with the certificates
during recruitment exercises to
ensure their genuineness.

One of the suspects, who claimed
innocence to the act, said he finished
a part-time programme, when the
then coordinator who works in the
school asked those of them interested
in the exemption letter to register.

“I was among those who indicated
interest. After six months, we were
called to come and pick it up. I never
knew that what he issued to us was
fake.

The suspect, who said he was not
forced to come NYSC, said he came
because he wanted to check the
geniuness of the certifiicate at the
legal department where he was told
that the certificate was fake.

Disclosing that he paid the sum of
N25,000 for the certificate, said he
got himself into the ‘mess’
ignorantly, saying he never know
that he could get an exemption
certificate without paying like
because “I was working and doing
the part time studies at the same
time”.

Source: DailyIndependent