No fewer than 1,000 members of the National Youth Service Corps nationwide are under investigation, NewsSpecng learnt.
The suspects’ accounts have been temporarily blocked pending the investigation on the allegation against them.
Also, their monthly allowance have been stopped as well.
The scheme said they were being punished for attempting to compromise its staff on posting and redeployment.
Some of those affected belong to 2021 Batch A, Streams 1 and 2, who sought redeployment from the original states they were posted to, while others sought redeployment from Northern states on security grounds.
Director-General of the NYSC, Brig. Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim revealed these in an interview with reporters in Abuja after declaring open the 2020 inspectors’ development programme with the theme: “Optimising the ideals of the scheme through effective utilisation of the NYSC inspector.”
He said: “There are 1000 corps members nationwide, we believe, who were involved in unethical practices. So, we cancelled it and we are still investigating it so anybody involved will be disciplined accordingly.
“So, recently, we had to block 1000 of the corps members who are involved in it because in NYSC we do not condone any act of indiscipline. We are not going to compromise our mobilisation process; our deployment is free, relocation is free.
“Once you have genuine reason on account of health and those that are married, we normally mobilise our staff and corps members should not go to any length and be deceived by either some of the unscrupulous staff and also outsiders who connive to compromise the process.
“Some even go to the extent of telling prospective corps members that they can change their date of birth so that they continue to come to service, that era has gone.
“I want to appeal to Nigerians that they should please not fall prey to these fraudsters, our deployment is free where there are challenges and NYSC has a way of addressing it.”
