The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has revealed that 54 individuals who were fraudulently mobilized as students of University of Calabar (UNICAL) for participation have been demobilised and will face prosecution.
The NYSC Director General, Brigadier General YD Ahmed who disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja, added that 19 among those initially fraudulently registered for mobilisation have been barred from service.
He said four Certificates of National Service for other culprits were not produced by the scheme.
This is in addition to the earlier 101 certificates that were recently voided by the scheme, making a total of 178.
Brigadier Ahmed also commended the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor Florence Obi for hinting the NYSC on the mobilisation of unqualified graduates from her institution for the scheme.
He promised that NYSC would leave no stone unturned towards sanitising its mobilisation process.
“The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar came here to report that she observed some names appeared on the institution’s list and they ought not to have been there.
“She checked the list the school gave us and I told her that their certificates would be invalidated. I give kudos to the Vice-Chancellor.
“Previously, a bread seller was mobilised on the graduation list from the same institution, there are bad eggs in many places that generate matriculation numbers and courses for their candidates”, the DG said.
The NYSC DG also said the scheme would strengthen partnership with the Heads of Corps Producing Institutions and relevant stakeholders to stop fraudulent mobilisation of people for the scheme.
According to him, problems of fraudulent mobilisation process falls on the integrity of the management of such an institution.
“Those who are responsible for imputing the data of graduates should be people of integrity”, General Ahmed said.
The NYSC DG also advised all employers of labour in the country to verify the authenticity of certificates of national service being presented for job placement from the NYSC.