The National Youth Service Corps, or NYSC, has demobilised 54 University of Calabar graduates who were illegally registered for national service by university officials.
According to Eddy Megwa, NYSC Director of Information and Public Relations, another 19 individuals who initially registered online for mobilisation have been barred from serving, while the system has failed to issue four Certificates of National Service for other culprits.
He stated that the culprits would be prosecuted in accordance with the law, and that in its ongoing efforts to prevent unqualified graduates from receiving the NYSC Certificate National Service, the scheme demobilised 54 Corps members that the University of Calabar had illegally mobilised.
Mr Megwa said, “Another 19 among them that initially registered online for mobilisation have been prevented from service, while four Certificates of National Service for other culprits were not produced by the scheme.
“This is in addition to the earlier one hundred and one, 101, certificates recently voided by the scheme, making a total of 178.“
The statement said the NYSC Director General lauded the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor Florence Obi for her forthrightness to have earlier hinted the Corps of the mobilisation of unqualified graduates from her institution.
The DG said the NYSC would leave no stone unturned in sanitising its mobilisation process.
He said: “The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar came here to report that she observed some names appeared on the institution’s list and they ought not to have been there.
“She checked the list the school gave us and I told her that their certificates would be invalidated. I give kudos to the Vice-Chancellor.“