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
on 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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