In its continuous effort to prevent unqualified graduates from obtaining the national service certificate, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) said a total of 54 corps members who were illegally mobilised by the University of Calabar, have been demobilised.
The NYSC Director General, Brigadier General YD Ahmed disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja.
He also said they would face legal prosecution.
According to him, another 19 among them who initially registered online for mobilisation have been prevented from service, while 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.
The Director General also showered encomiums on the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor Florence Obi for her forthrightness to have earlier hinted the NYSC on the mobilisation of unqualified graduates from her institution.
Speaking further, General Ahmed said 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.
General Ahmed stated further that the scheme would intensify its collaboration with all the Heads of Corps Producing Institutions and relevant stakeholders in the country to stop the menace.
He added that any failure in the mobilisation process from any school 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.
He called on all employers of labour in the country to verify the authenticity of certificates of national service being presented for job placement from the NYSC.
