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The National
Youth Service Corps (NYSC), on Friday, said it had detected fake certificates
alleged to be issued by its office and called on employers of labour to always
verify certificates to ascertain their authenticity.
Alhaji Hudu
Taura, Director, Certification, NYSC said this while addressing newsmen in
Abuja.
He said that
the verification measure became imperative in order to curb activities of
fraudsters who issue fake certificates.
According to
Taura, NYSC recently launched a new certificate which carries the passport of
the corps members with some other security fixtures added to upgrade it.
He said that
the organisation detected 17 fake certificates of exemption when the management
of the Guaranty Trust Bank (GBT) brought some certificates of their employees
to NYSC for verification.
He said the
owners of those certificates were invited to come for proper verification but
out of the 17 invited only seven responded.
He said out of
the seven only four culprits were being presented because three of them
absconded.
Taura said
that they confessed to have paid certain amounts to some fake NYSC staff to get
the certificate.
He said their
statements had been compiled and would be passed to security agents to take the
appropriate action to arraign them in court.
“We invited
the owners of those certificates to come because that is what we normally do
whenever we doubt any certificate; but out of the 17 invited only seven showed
up.
“We verified
their certificates and took their statement, because it was discovered that
they were fake; as they were not issued by us and they confessed that they got
them from some other sources.
“We are
appealing to all employers of labour to bring the certificates that are said to
be issued by NYSC for verification anytime they are employing to ascertain its
genuiness.
“They can also
bring those of their old employees working with them too. This is to help us
curb the activities of fraudsters.
“No NYSC staff
was involved in the scam because the name and account number of the so called
staff was mentioned and he is not a staff.’’
Taura said
that some of the paraded people went as far as paying from N40 ,000 ,N45,000 up
to N50,000 to get the fake certificate of exemption.
He urged the
media to also help in sensitising the public on the activities of scammers to
enable NYSC fish out all those involved and also stop people from falling
victims.
Speaking, some
of the culprits told newsmen that they were innocent of the allegation as they
were ignorantly misled by their school coordinators to pay money for
certificate of exemption.
Mr Olatunde
Abolorin said he paid N25 .000 after his graduation for the certificate as
cajoled by his course coordinator in 2010 and was called after six months for
his certificate.
He said he
came to NYSC office as called because he wanted to ascertain the authenticity
of his certificate only to discover that it was fake.
Mr Akan
Macaulay and Mr Yusuf Adekunle said they were asked to write their names if
they were interested in getting certificate of exemption which they did and
paid for without knowing it was fake.
They appealed
to NYSC to assist them to pin down the fake NYSC official adding that they have
documents carrying his name and address. (NAN)
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