We’ll Continue To Prosecute Fake Graduates, Says NYSC

The National Youth Service Corps on Wednesday restated that it
would not bow to pressure to compromise its mobilisation
process.

The organisation said anyone caught with fake certificates
during registration would be prosecuted as enshrined in the NYSC
Act.

The Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim,
according to a statement by its Director (Press and Public
Relations), Adenike Adeyemi, issued the threat when he hosted the
Registrar/CEO of Health Records Officials Registration Board of
Nigeria, Alhaji Babagana Mustapha who paid a courtesy visit to him
in his office in Abuja.

Ibrahim said, “The NYSC would not relent to do the needful in
line with the NYSC Act. We will continue to persecute fake
graduates. Anyone caught with fake certificates during registration
would be prosecuted as enshrined in the NYSC Act. I want to assure
you that we will move our collaboration to the next level and will
continue to post graduates of Health Information Management to
medical facilities.”

Speaking earlier, Mustapha who described the NYSC as one of the
critical stakeholders of the Board expressed gratitude to Ibrahim
for his support to the Board since assuming duty as the NYSC
helmsman.

He commended the DG for preventing unqualified persons from
being mobilised by the scheme for service. .

He also expressed gratitude to the NYSC in respect of having
graduates of Health Information Management licensed before
mobilisation for service in order to forestall quackery and posting
of unqualified persons to health institutions.

“Considering the fact that Health Records Professionals are
critical to any effort at healthcare delivery, therefore, if left
in the hands of quacks, it will jeopardize the confidentiality of
patients’ data and management of patients’ care in general.

I am here to inform you sir, that since approval, our graduates
are now gladly and wholeheartedly posted to hospitals and health
centres which has helped in no small measure in combating quackery
and exposing our graduates to the practical aspects of all they
learnt while in school”, he added.

The Registrar hinted that one major challenge facing the board
is the presentation of licence by its graduates at Orientation
Camps.

“We had stated categorically in our Memorandum of Understanding
that only Higher National Diploma certified licences are to be
presented at camps for acceptance/clearance from camp officials,
not National Diploma licences as presented by some of the
graduates. We entreat you to kindly give consideration and action
in this regard at future camps which we are confident you will
oblige”, he stated.

The National Youth Service Corps on Wednesday restated that it
would not bow to pressure to compromise its mobilisation
process.

The organisation said anyone caught with fake certificates
during registration would be prosecuted as enshrined in the NYSC
Act.

The Director-General of NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim,
according to a statement by its Director (Press and Public
Relations), Adenike Adeyemi, issued the threat when he hosted the
Registrar/CEO of Health Records Officials Registration Board of
Nigeria, Alhaji Babagana Mustapha who paid a courtesy visit to him
in his office in Abuja.

Ibrahim said, “The NYSC would not relent to do the needful in
line with the NYSC Act. We will continue to persecute fake
graduates. Anyone caught with fake certificates during registration
would be prosecuted as enshrined in the NYSC Act. I want to assure
you that we will move our collaboration to the next level and will
continue to post graduates of Health Information Management to
medical facilities.”

Speaking earlier, Mustapha who described the NYSC as one of the
critical stakeholders of the Board expressed gratitude to Ibrahim
for his support to the Board since assuming duty as the NYSC
helmsman.

He commended the DG for preventing unqualified persons from
being mobilised by the scheme for service. .

He also expressed gratitude to the NYSC in respect of having
graduates of Health Information Management licensed before
mobilisation for service in order to forestall quackery and posting
of unqualified persons to health institutions.

“Considering the fact that Health Records Professionals are
critical to any effort at healthcare delivery, therefore, if left
in the hands of quacks, it will jeopardize the confidentiality of
patients’ data and management of patients’ care in general.

I am here to inform you sir, that since approval, our graduates
are now gladly and wholeheartedly posted to hospitals and health
centres which has helped in no small measure in combating quackery
and exposing our graduates to the practical aspects of all they
learnt while in school”, he added.

The Registrar hinted that one major challenge facing the board
is the presentation of licence by its graduates at Orientation
Camps.

“We had stated categorically in our Memorandum of Understanding
that only Higher National Diploma certified licences are to be
presented at camps for acceptance/clearance from camp officials,
not National Diploma licences as presented by some of the
graduates. We entreat you to kindly give consideration and action
in this regard at future camps which we are confident you will
oblige”, he stated.