National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Director-General Shuaibu
Ibrahim has warned some tertiary institutions to stop presenting
over-aged graduates for mobilisation for service.
He said the scheme has observed that some tertiary institutions
present over-aged graduates for its mobilisation, noting that the
NYSC would not hesitate to apply appropriate sanctions.
The director-general spoke in Abuja at a pre-mobilisation
workshop for the 2019 Batch B.
To address this, Ibrahim said that the scheme has decided to,
henceforth include the date of birth of corps members on the
Certificate of National Service and Exclusion Letter as a measure
to guard against age falsification.
According to him, the increase in number of corps producing
institutions and the attendant rise in corps members population
posed a great challenge which we must address.
Ibrahim said: “It has been observed that the Students’ Affairs
Officers do not commence early upload of their master lists despite
the long period the NYSC portal is opened for this purpose. Many
wait till a few days to the close of the portal before rushing to
meet up with the deadline, thereby making a lot of mistakes in the
process.
“We have observed that some corps producing institutions present
over-aged graduates for mobilisation.
“Such graduates falsify their ages in order to avoid appearing
on the exemption list. Such act will not be condoned and the scheme
will not hesitate to apply appropriate sanctions on any institution
involved.
“As a further step toward curtailing age falsification, we have
decided to include date of birth on the Certificate of National
Service and Exclusion Letter. This is just as in the case of the
WAEC certificate and the NYSC Exemption Certificate. We also plan
to carry out advocacy to encourage other examination bodies to
adopt the same approach.”
He also said the scheme has observed that some accredited
institutions help unaccredited ones to mobilise unqualified
graduates for service.
He informed that the NYSC was working on a platform where corps
producing institution would be require to upload the list of their
matriculated students every year.
Ibrahim said: “We have also observed cases of suspected
connivance whereby some accredited institutions help unaccredited
ones to mobilise unqualified graduates.
“While the scheme will continue to sanction erring institutions,
we are working on introducing a platform on the NYSC portal where
the corps producing institution will be required to upload the list
of their matriculated students every year.
“This will be used to eliminate the registration of persons
whose names are presented for mobilisation but who are not found on
the matriculation list.”
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