Fraud within NYSC, group petitions President Buhari
– The group, Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) alleged massive fraud within the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)
– The group urged President Muhammadu Buhari to call for a forensic audit of all revenues from the online portal and remittances to the federation account
Corps member on parade
A group, Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) has petitioned the Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari over alleged fraud in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
The group in a petition signed by its executive director, Sunday Attah called the attention of the president to an ongoing frauds by officials and management of the NYSC through the corps portal.
Attah said an “anti-people fee” was opposed on the corps members mobilized for the one mandatory youth service.
Last year, the NYSC had introduced N4,000 as fee for accessing its online portal for registration and printing of call up letter by corps members mobilized to various states in Nigeria for the mandatory one-year youth service.
He called on the president to order a forensic audit on all revenues from the NYSC online portal and remittances to the federation account.
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“Your excellency, the NYSC management conveniently structured this extortion as a Private Public Partnership (PPP) similar to the Immigration recruitment scam that led to loss of life,” Attah said.
He said the corps had claimed that the there would be reduction in the N4,000 paid as online portal fee.
“At inception, the claims by brigadier general Olawumi and his cohorts basically implied that users of the online platform must pay for the initial cost of acquiring hardware and setting up the portal. The explanation was that there would be a drop in the N4000 fee over the course of time when the cost of setting up the portal would have been recovered. Conveniently, no definite timeline for reviewing the fee was provided.
“In addition to being an extortion racket, the PPP arrangement equally implies that your Excellency’s directive on the Treasury Single Account (TSA) for all revenues generated by government agencies is in a grey area. Whatever agreement NYSC signed with its PPP implementing partner, Sidmach Technologies Nigeria Limited, remains secretive and details of remittances to the federal government are unknown.
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“Nigerians were also misled into thinking that using the online portal was optional while the realities on ground are totally different. Those who tried not to use the portal ultimately discovered they must revert to it or risk losing the chance to serve their fatherland.
“We resorted to writing your Excellency after all the petitions sent to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to halt the self-enrichment being carried out by the NYSC and the principal actor, the director general and they failed to act accordingly,” Attah said.
Attah recommended that the NYSC be mandated to make the use of its online portal optional for corps members.
“A directive be given for a full scale investigation of the finances of all other NYSC officials and management staff with connections to the portal, a directive be given for a forensic audit of all revenues from the online portal and remittances to the federation account,” he said.
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