The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has arrested 17 youths for allegedly impersonating corps members at the National Youth Service Corps Orientation Camp at Kubwa, Abuja.
According to a statement sent toSUNDAY PUNCHon Saturday, ICPC operatives made arrests on Thursday evening while suspects were posing and taking pictures outside the camp during the passing-out ceremonies.
It said they stormed the NYSC Orientation Camp at Kubwa based on intelligence reports and effected the arrest of the suspects made up of eight females and nine males.
During preliminary investigation, 15 of the ‘fake’ corps members claimed to have enrolled in degree courses run by consultancy services in the following institutions: University of Calabar (6), University of Jos (6), Ebonyi State University (1), Federal University of Technology, Owerri (1) and Crown Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti (1).
“One of the other two said she never attended any university but desired the NYSC discharge certificate. The other, a young man, impersonated his sister, a genuine corps member currently receiving medical treatment abroad, in order to collect her discharge certificate,” the statement read.
The spokesman of the ICPC, Mr. Folu Olamiti, noted that the commission’s Chairman, Mr. Ekpo Nta, has at various public fora warned parents, guardians and young students seeking admission into universities and other tertiary institutions to ensure that their proposed courses are approved by the Nigerian Universities Commission and other regulatory bodies.
The arrests bring to 26 the total the number of “fake” corps members arrested by ICPC.
The commission had arrested nine others in May.
“ICPC hereby warns employers, parents and guardians to cross-check with the NYSC if they are suspicious of any person submitting call-up letters, posting letters, Discharge and Exemption Certificates,” the statement read in part.
It would also be recalled that the Department of State Security on September 19 paraded a fake NYSC syndicate in Abuja.
http://www.punchng.com/news/icpc-arrests-17-fake-corps-members/

should the impersonator be arrested? his sister is sick..he shouln't be arrested if there was no provisons made for the sick members.

Good for them.
People are always trying to impersonate

I. Send dem Msg!!!!!!

But wait o how did dey pass thru screening? D guy dat impersonated his sister cos she's shuld be pardoned if his story is true

Hw many alawee una don collect,GODFORSAKINGNIGERIA

Hmmm...why person go fake to be corper ni? D ones wey finish service no see work u still dey fake Coper. Mtchh anyway,dat eminike shot hot sha! front page tins!

Hmmm....low self esteem...

What do u xpect where d is no job 4 d youth.one need 2 earn a living.I dn't blame dem.

y is it only in Abuja that dey arrest fake corpers? Fake new....Next plz

hmmmm all i gat 2 say ix... It ix well

[color=#000099][/color]so there's fake in every area even youth service! thumbs up

Interesting.

*speechless*

Products of failed system. How about the seemly genuined ones that paid their way out of University to secure the certificate they are carrying about? Which ICPC would arrest and investigate those?

https://www.nairaland.com/1476545/efcc-arrests-fake-police-commissioner. Na similar news

Anything goes in my dear country. I still don't get frick with this NYSC stuff. One man food is another man's poison

The want to serve Naija. So no be bad tin

Dis guys are desperados.

Make dem go SERVE their FATHER's LAND 4 JAIL nah...

So watz next afta d arrest? Ur guess is as gud as mine

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I can not categorically tell u wat is going on in dis country.

.they should be purnish.

I only pity the guy who is impersonating his dear sister

must everything be "faked"?

Hmmm. When will wonders end?

ηα wαo¡

Try again next time