*95 fake corps members in police net
By Jane Okafor
The International Society on Transparency (IST) has commended the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, for flushing out fake corps members from the scheme.
The group in a statement on Wednesday said the DG’s radical approach has drastically checkmated mobilization of fake corps members for the compulsory one year national service.
Recall that the NYSC recently held the second edition of its management meeting with heads of higher institutions of learning from some African countries, where sundry issues were discussed.
Speaking at the event, the DG lamented the “outright sale of degree certificates to persons who never saw the four walls of a university”.
He noted that this “category of persons were unable to communicate in English language or express themselves on paper, to defend their qualifications”.
Since he assumed office in May 2019, Brig-Gen. Ibrahim launched concerted campaign against fake graduates and corps members.
In August of that year, over 10 fake NYSC members were nabbed in different parts of the country.
Two months later, it handed over 85 fake corps members to the police for trial after they were arrested in camps nationwide with fake documents.
The Scheme has continued to fish out fake corps members across the country since then and the International Society on Transparency has lauded the DG for this campaign.
According to its Executive Secretary, Francis Maxwell, this has built confidence in the NYSC.
Maxwell noted that relevant stakeholders are collaborating more with the Scheme.
He, however, urged the Director-General to maintain the momentum in his quest to rid the nation of fake corps members.
