The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has discovered 17 staff members
of the Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) with fake NYSC exemption certificates.
Four of the suspects were handed over to the police by the corps for
onward prosecution while others are to be arrested for prosecution.
Speaking with newsmen at the handing over in Abuja, the NYSC Director of
Certification, Alhaji Hudu Aliyu Taura, said the arrest was made
possible through the cooperation of their employers, who alerted the
scheme for verification of their certificates.
He disclosed that 17 certificates were found out to be fake during the
verification exercise carried out by the scheme, adding that three out
of the suspects who are currently using the certificates to work in one
of the financial institutions bank were on the run.
He assured that the remaining 10 people and those on the run would soon be arrested.
“Some employers came to verify those certificates, specifically GTB sent
certificates to be verified by us and in the course of that, we found
17 out of what they sent to be fake. So, we invited them to come with
the original of that certificates.
“Only seven came and we took their statements. We verified the
certificates and found them to be fake, they were not issued by the
NYSC. They confessed to have gotten them from other sources.
“So, with their written statements, we will hand them over to the security agencies for further necessary action.
Taura further said that it had become necessary for the employers of
labour to crosscheck with the NYSC to ascertain the genuineness of
certificate submitted to them by applicants.
“We are appealing to all employers of labour to bring the certificates
that are said to be issued with NYSC for verification. Any time they are
employing, they should contact NYSC with the certificates so that we
can verify and tell them the genuine ones. Even those that had employed
should bring those certificates for verification,” he said.
The suspects confessed to newsmen to have paid money ranging from
N25,000, N40,000, N60,000, N20,000 to get the fake certificates
Culled from Tribune Newspaper
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