The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has warned prospective corps members with fake credentials to stay off Orientation Camps across the country.
The Director-General, Brigadier General Ibrahim Shuiabu, in a statement on Sunday by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Mrs. Adenike Adeyemi, warned that anyone caught with the intent to undermine the integrity of its mobilisation process with fake certificates would be arrested and prosecuted.
Ibrahim stated that the NYSC had put necessary mechanisms in place to curb the enrollment of fake graduates for the orientation course, and would continue working diligently in that direction.
Ibrahim revealed that during the 2019 Batch ‘C’ online registration, over 20,000 foreign-trained Nigerians uploaded their results online but only 3,420 appeared for physical verification because most didn’t have genuine certificates.
He said: “The scheme recently had a meeting with the Registrars and Student Affairs Officers of some African Universities and read the riot act to them, including the Vice-Chancellors, Rectors and Provosts in the country on the need to sanitise the mobilisation process.
“The NYSC alone cannot do it, we need other stakeholders to assist us and we have started the process and l am sure things are getting better.
“I want to appeal to our youths to do the right thing and not to cut corners in whatever they do in life because there is always a reward for hard work,” he added.