The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said it will partner the National Youth Service Corps to fish out unqualified graduates currently in the scheme.

The EFCC said it had received a request from the NYSC to check the activities of “unpatriotic Nigerians who sell their certificates to unqualified graduates to be able to undergo the youth service”.

The acting chairman of the anti-corruption body, Mr Ibrahim Magu, stated these in Abuja when he received the NYSC Director-General, Brig-Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim, in his office in Abuja.

A statement by the NYSC on Tuesday quoted Magu as saying the EFCC would support the NYSC in its move to combat fraudulent mobilisation of unqualified graduates for national service.

He stated, “We condemn the activities of unpatriotic elements who bring shame to the nation by their insatiable desire to make money at all costs, including the sale of certificates to unqualified graduates.”

The NYSC DG appealed to the EFCC for support “in closely monitoring the activities of unscrupulous higher institutions which present unqualified graduates for mobilisation for national service”.

He added, “It is dreadfully ill-timed that roughly institutions of elevated learning, for the most part in Cotonou, Benin Republic, existing to us dwell in who didn’t die to the four parapet of the institution of higher education as graduates for mobilisation.

“Currently, we are investigating approximately of such so-called graduates, countless of whom cannot drop a line to or connote any word in English.”


Source; https://maniagist.com/2019/07/17/efcc-hunts-unqualified-graduates-undergoing-nysc-scheme/

Good!

Mods puts this thing into front page.

The overzealous EFCC people are going into areas well beyond their oversight without understanding the implications of their actions, just because they see themselves as self-appointed anti-corruption crusaders. Their Operations Department focuses mainly on advance fee fraud (a.k.a. 419), financial fraud (bank-related et al), misconduct in economic and corporate governance, terrorism (and acts of terrorism) and general investigations following or emanating from court proceedings.

Why don't they go after the tertiary institutions that submit names of graduates for the NYSC scheme or go after corrupt NYSC officials who obtain pecuniary gratification from purported graduates?

The EFCC is not a saint. All anti-corruption agencies in Nigeria have a good measure of corruption in their system.

Who will judge the EFCC?