Exemption certificate allegedly issued to Adeosun is fake - Ex-NYSC director
- Anthony Ani, a former director at the NYSC, has said that the exemption certificate presented by the minister of finance is fake
- He said the director general of the NYSC in September 2009 was Brigadier General M. I Tsiga and not Brigadier General Yusuf Bomoi who signed Adeosun's certificate
- According to Ani, Tsiga was already a sitting DG at the corps and no certificate could have been signed by an already retired director general at the NYSC
A former director of mobilisation at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Anthony Ani, has revealed that the exemption certificate issued to the minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun, is fake.
Ani while speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Wednesday, July 11, said the corps cannot offer such certificate.
The director who was in charge of deployment of corps members said the director general of the NYSC in September 2009 was Brigadier General M. I Tsiga and not Brigadier General Yusuf Bomoi, who purportedly signed the certificate presented by the minister.
Ani said Tsiga was already a sitting NYSC DG and no certificate could have been signed by an already retired director general at the corps.
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He also said it was impossible for the NYSC to have issued a certificate of exemption to someone who graduated below the age of 30 as the individual would have been made to serve even if he or she was 60.
Ani said: “The NYSC cannot issue that kind of certificate. Yes, the one reported by Premium Times. We could not have issued that type.
"The certificate that I saw, that one that I saw if it is the one that they are talking about, the one I saw online, it was not issued by NYSC. I don’t know who issued it. It was not issued by NYSC because what I saw there, the signatory to that certificate was our DG (Gen. Bomoi) who left in January and Gen. Tsiga took over from General Bomoi.
“Tsiga was a sitting DG even as of that September 2009. So, I don’t know where her certificate came from but NYSC cannot make that kind of mistake. The NYSC that I served, I know can never make that kind of mistake.
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"If you are above 30 even by one day, you will be exempted but if you are below 30 or you are 30 at the time of graduation, you will be deployed. It is not possible to be exempted if you graduated below 30 because it is against the NYSC Act.
"So, even if you graduate at the age of 20 and you are in the United States and you have not made yourself available to be mobilised, whenever you come back even if you are 60 years, you have to undergo the NYSC."
Addressing the criminality of presenting a fake NYSC certificate to an employer, Ani said all employers were mandated to demand NYSC certificates before hiring graduates.
“If you read Section 13 of the NYSC Act, it says not making yourself available for service is a criminal offence. However, whenever you want the NYSC certificate, whether you delay it until you are 60 years old, you must come to serve because you graduated when you were below 30.
"According to Section 13 of the NYSC Act, if you give false information concerning your NYSC, you are liable (sic). If you present a certificate that was not issued by the NYSC, you are liable (sic). It is a criminal offence.
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"Whoever is employing anybody in this country, whether private or government, once you are coming in to accept that appointment, you are to present your NYSC certificate and it is also the responsibility of your employer to request it," the former NYSC director said.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the federal government had addressed the issue of alleged forged exemption certificate by the minister.
The minister of information Lai Mohammed while speaking on the matter said the government has already spoken on the controversy surrounding the alleged forgery by the Adeosun.
Mohammed said the FG will rely on the reply given by NYSC and that there is nothing else to add.
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Source: Legit.ng
