We’ll fish out corrupt institutions sending unqualified graduates to us – NYSC

The National Youth Service Corps has said it would go after corrupt institutions and individuals who are involved in the mobilisation of unqualified graduates for the national service. 

The NYSC Director-General, Maj Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim, stated this during a meeting on Tuesday with Registrars of corps producing institutions in Nigeria held in Abuja, a statement by Eddy Megwa, the Director of Press and Public Relations, noted.

Ibrahim said the NYSC was determined to plug all the loopholes and prosecute anyone found complicit in the act. 

“Gaps have already been identified with a number of resolutions reached on how to eradicate recurrent challenges, but implementation has remained elusive.

“In schools where Registrars have abdicated their roles to subordinate officers, we have seen various forms of abuses and shortfalls. This has given rise to occasional mobilisation of unqualified persons, many of whom have been detected by NYSC field officers,” he said.

He further said the meeting was part of enlightenment for the key officers to rise up to their responsibilities adding that ignorance was a stranger to the law.

The DG said that the establishment of NYSC Radio and Television Stations was part of the Scheme’s plan to give more enlightenment on NYSC issues including penalties and offences that attracted jail term, while the stations would also be used to disclose the identity of offenders after being declared guilty by the court. 

He appealed to Nigerians to support the establishment of NYSC Trust Fund which has enjoyed tremendous goodwill of both the green and red chambers of the National Assembly. 

He said upon actualization, NYSC media outfits would transparently show Nigerians the benefits and impacts of the on fund youth development.

In her introductory address, the Director, NYSC Corps Mobilisation Department, Victoria Ango said the mobilisation exercise was a joint function which must be free from all forms of defects to guarantee the desired outcome. 

She added that the desire of the Management to engage the Registrars of Corps Producing Institutions became manifest when most institutions, both local and foreign, sent people to NYSC programmes with little or no stake in the managerial interest of the schools.

“Such representatives have often been vulnerable to little temptations and perks of office which translate to serious abuses,” Ango said.