NYSC Apprehends Fake Corp Member

Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi, the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC),  has revealed that fake intending corps members were prevented from enrolling through the online registration system Thisday reports.

Olawuni made this known in Abuja at a stakeholders' meeting on the NYSC e-registration.

The Director General who insisted that due process was followed in the deployment of Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure for the scheme, said it was important for the NYSC to embrace the modern ICT system in the technology-driven world.

He explained that the system would wipe out fraud, avoidable deaths in the encountered in the mobilization processes.

"It becomes antithetical for the NYSC to have retained the antiquated and traditional manual mobilization processes with the attendant shortcomings and associated problems, rather than embracing a global phenomenon that eliminates errors and saves time," he said.

He added that,"The prospective corps members have equally faced the treachery of fraudsters who extort money from them in the name of NYSC without remorse, frustration in collection of call-up letters, cloning of lost call-up letters for the purpose of fake camps and stealing of call-up letters from schools."

He however said the pilot e-mobilisation exercise was a huge success, as it forms a standard shift from the old system.

"During the last Batch 'C' Mobilisation and Orientation exercise, we tested the project and it was a huge departure from the past as prospective corps members went online to register, while Corps Producing Institutions simply sent the Senate approved results which were uploaded. Those who qualified for mobilisation and chose the option of accessing the infrastructure, were promptly notified by e-mail and immediately received Call-up numbers online instead of travelling to their schools," he stated.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Martilda Nnodim, the Chairperson of the Association of Registrars of Nigerian Universities (ARNU), who represented the Corps members producing institutions at the forum praised the initiative, noting that there was need for NYSC to go digital in their mobilization processes.

Nnodim said that the notion was a wake-up call, which has finally pushed the universities to successfully pursue the digitalization of their processes.