The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission
has arrested 17 youths for allegedly impersonating corps members at the
National Youth Service Corps Orientation Camp at Kubwa, Abuja.
According
to a statement sent toSUNDAY PUNCHon Saturday, ICPC operatives made
arrests on Thursday evening while suspects were posing and taking
pictures outside the camp during the passing-out ceremonies.
It said
they stormed the NYSC Orientation Camp at Kubwa based on intelligence
reports and effected the arrest of the suspects made up of eight females
and nine males.
During preliminary investigation, 15 of the ‘fake’
corps members claimed to have enrolled in degree courses run by
consultancy services in the following institutions: University of
Calabar (6), University of Jos (6), Ebonyi State University (1), Federal
University of Technology, Owerri (1) and Crown Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti
(1).
“One of the other two said she never attended any university but
desired the NYSC discharge certificate. The other, a young man,
impersonated his sister, a genuine corps member currently receiving
medical treatment abroad, in order to collect her discharge
certificate,” the statement read.
The spokesman of the ICPC, Mr. Folu
Olamiti, noted that the commission’s Chairman, Mr. Ekpo Nta, has at
various public fora warned parents, guardians and young students seeking
admission into universities and other tertiary institutions to ensure
that their proposed courses are approved by the Nigerian Universities
Commission and other regulatory bodies.
The arrests bring to 26 the total the number of “fake” corps members arrested by ICPC.
The commission had arrested nine others in May.
“ICPC
hereby warns employers, parents and guardians to cross-check with the
NYSC if they are suspicious of any person submitting call-up letters,
posting letters, Discharge and Exemption Certificates,” the statement
read in part.
It would also be recalled that the Department of State Security on September 19 paraded a fake NYSC syndicate in Abuja.
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