The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, (NYSC), Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, has warned prospective corps members with fake certificate not to show up at the NYSC camp.

The DG gave the warning on Wednesday at the 2020 Batch ‘A’ pre-mobilization workshop in Asaba.

He said,

“I wish to draw stakeholders’ attention to the emerging trend among youths, who try to cut corners by going to foreign countries, especially with the West African sub-region to buy certificates for Degree course they never attended.

“This is a worrisome development as it represents a clear danger to our country. The degree of harm that can be done to our socio-economic life if these fraudulent youths are inadvertently employed in the public and private sectors is better imagined than experienced.

“Some of them had been audacious enough as to attempt presenting themselves for mobilization for National service”

He, however, disclosed that through its strict process of evaluating the qualifications of prospective corps members, many have been apprehended who upon interrogation, confessed to securing the academic credentials fraudulently.

He noted that the workshop in Delta State was a platform for the NYSC management and other stakeholders to review the issue in the mobilization process with a view to ensuring continuous improvement.

Declaring the workshop open, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa assured NYSC management of its commitment in supporting the scheme in the area of security, the welfare of corpers among others.

Okowa, represented by the Commissioner for Youths Development, Mr. Ifeanyi Egwunyenga commended the NYSC DG on its fight against fake certificates.