The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) arrested a certain 200-level student for allegedly obtaining a fake degree certificate and partaking in the ongoing orientation exercise in Zamfara state camp. It was said that the NYSC last Friday arrested the student who was only identified as Rose, a 200-level Journalism undergraduate in a university in Cotonou, Benin republic. This arrest has been confirmed by the NYSC Director- General, Brig. Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim.
The DG said the Benin Republic university wrote to inform the scheme after seeing photographs of "Rose" in the NYSC uniform while in camp. These photographs were seen on her social media page. She was participating in the Batch C stream 1 orientation course before she was apprehended. He also noted that the student was brought to the FCT, Abuja, also to the office of the Department of State Services for further investigations.
The DG has warned that the NYSC would fish out fake graduates and certificates, and also that anyone arrested would be duly prosecuted.The DG is quoted to have said, “The clampdown on fake graduates and certificates is yielding more results. On Friday, one of the universities in Cotonou, Benin Republic saw their 200-level student in the NYSC uniform on the social media. She is supposed to be a 200-level of the university studying journalism." “But she went and purchased a fake certificate from another Benin Republic university and now served in the camp in Zamfara. So, her classmates saw her on the social media and raised the alarm to the university, which then alerted and wrote me."
“The university said they recognised the efforts of the scheme in nabbing fake graduates and they were not a party to her fake certificate. So we got her arrested in Zamfara. She was brought to Abuja and we have arranged with the DSS to take her away.”
