Fake National Youth Service Corps members arrested during the Batch B Orientation Exercise in Kubwa, Abuja have been prosecuted and jailed.
Brig Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim, Director-General of NYSC, stated this in a release at the Kubwa Orientation Camp yesterday.
He said that since then, the clampdown on fake graduates had brought sanity into the process.
Last September, about 85 fake corps members were handed over to the police for trial after they were arrested in camps nationwide.
“In the Batch B streams 1 and 2, we made several arrests and I am happy to inform Nigerians that some have been prosecuted and jailed last week,” he said.
He added: “During the 2019 Batch C mobilisation, over 20,000 foreign-trained Nigerians uploaded online for mobilisation but through our measures of physical verification, only 3,420 showed up. This is to tell you that we are good, because I warned them earlier that if they are not qualified, they should not show up.
“We have not arrested any fake corps member in camps in this current orientation exercise going on.”
While he commended the contribution of corps members to the Kogi and Bayelsa states’ elections, the NYSC boss said the scheme had enhanced the electoral process in the country.
Gen. Ibrahim stated further that the Federal Government had approved the minimum wage for the corps members and that they should wait for implementation.