NYSC Arrests Seven For Buying Fake Exemption Certificates

 

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