National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) did not mobilise graduates from Benue State University for the 2018 Batch C programme because of their fraudulent activities on the scheme’s online portal.
NYSC director of ICT Christy Mba said a check it ran showed schools manipulated the matriculation numbers and graduation year of students to make them seem eligible for the one-year mandatory service.
She spoke to journalists during the swearing in of the 2018 Batch C Corps Members in the Federal Capital Territory.
She said the scheme through the system discovered that some of these garduates who were found wanting were actually due for exemption rather than partake in the one year youth service programme.
Mba said, “In some situations, you find out that someone has been uploaded, then he goes into the system to register but along the line, he observes that the date of birth from JAMB database is going to exempt him, he goes back to the institution to manipulate his matric number and year of graduation to get mobilised.”
When the scheme observed such cases, she said such cases were extracted and such institutions were blocked from going for service and were asked to go back to their institutions and collect their exemption certificates.
She noted that some of the universities found culpable, were blocked from uploading data for 2018 Batch C which was what affected the Benue State University graduates.
It would be recalled that on the 17 October this year, prospective Corps Members across Benue State protested that they could not assess the portal of the NYSC to get registered for the 2018 Batch C youth service programme.
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