EFCC to partner NYSC on fraudulent mobilisation

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has pledged its support for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in combating fraudulent mobilisation of unqualified graduates for national service.

It also commended corps members for educating Nigerians on the dangers of corruption through the anti-corruption community development service groups.

A statement by the director, press and public relations, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi Tuesday, said EFCC Acting Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Magu said this when he received the NYSC Director-General, Brig.- Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim, who paid him a courtesy call in his office at the EFCC headquarters, Abuja.

Speaking earlier, the NYSC boss had decried the increasing rate of corruption in all spheres of life in the country, adding that under his watch, staff and corps members will pursue the fight to get rid of the ugly monster with greater zeal.

He stressed that the war against corruption required the support of all and sundry by joining forces with all agencies of government to eradicate the menace.

Brig.-Gen Ibrahim appealed to Ibrahim Magu to support NYSC in its quest to closely monitor the activities of unscrupulous higher institutions that present unqualified graduates for mobilisation for national service.

The Director General promised to add vigour to the scheme’s result-driven partnership with the EFCC in combating corruption.

“Mr. Chairman, it is very unfortunate that some institutions of higher learning, particularly in Cotonou, Benin Republic, present to us people who didn’t go to the four walls of the university as graduates for mobilisation.

“Currently, we are investigating some of such so-called graduates, many of whom cannot write or spell any word in English,” he lamented.

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