Stop Mobilizing Part-time Graduates for NYSC- JAMB Registrar.
The Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has warned Corps Producing Institutions to STOP mobilizing part-time programme graduates for the compulsory one-year national service course.
Prof. Ishaq made this announcement in Abuja on Tuesday 10 May, while speaking at the meeting between the management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and Registrars of Corps Producing Institutions in Nigeria.
He glared at the high rate of fake admission given to unqualified people, in his words: “Some institutions have been admitting unqualified candidates who did not go through the Central Admissions Processes (CAPs) knowing fully well such act is illegal.
“JAMB had to plead to the Minister of Education when we discover that close to one million candidates have been admitted in our tertiary instructions illegally between 2017 and 2021.
“What is more pressing in our discussion is that about 25 per cent of these illegally admitted student were on Sanwich programme. We noticed they are been identified as “Daily Part-time” students, even worse the Institutions have gone ahead to mobilize them for NYSC pon graduation. Which is simply why we’ve rejected the list and asked the defaulting institutions to separate them from the graduates of regular programmes.
“We’re also aware that the mobilization of fake corps members would not have been possible without the collaboration of the Registrars. Whether in or out of office, all those responsible for illegal admission will be held responsible and brought to justice.
“I want to urge all Registrars to please stop mobilizing graduates from Part-time programmes for NYSC,” because it is insane.
Responding to this, the Director-General of NYSC, Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim, notified that the scheme is more determined now than before to prosecute fake corps members found guilty.
According to Maj. Gen. Shuaibu, “There are over 2000 active Corps Producing Institutions on the NYSC database, out of which only 320 of them are home based. Though relatively few, the participants for these conference are grouped into North and South for separate sections to enable everybody to be part of the decision-making process.
“The purpose of this meeting is to seek ways of eliminating fraud in the mobilizing process that have already been identified with a number of measures put in place towards eradicating recurrent challenges in implementation.
“Institutions where Registrars use their positions to subordinate officers, has given rise to mobilization of unqualified candidates which many have been caught on several occasions.
“This meeting should serve as part of an enlightenment for the officers to know that ignorance of the law is not an excuse.”
