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November 19, 2019
The National Youth Service Corps has said that someof the arrested fake corps members during the Batch B Orientation Exercise havebeen prosecuted in court and jailed.
The NYSC Director General, Brigadier General ShuaibuIbrahim, stated this at the Kubwa Orientation Camp in the Federal CapitalTerritory, according to a release late, adding that the scheme’s clampdown onfake graduates had brought sanity into the process.
It will be recalled that the NYSC in September notedthat it handed over 85 fake corps members to the police for trial after theywere arrested in camps nationwide with fake documents.
The DG stated on Monday that some of the corpsmembers had been prosecuted and jailed in the past week.
While commending the contribution of corps membersto the Kogi and Bayelsa states’ elections, the DG said the scheme had enhancedthe electoral process in the country.
On the payment of minimum wage to corps members,Ibrahim insisted that the Federal Government had approved the minimum wage forthe corps members and that they should wait for payment.