Anthony Ani, former Director of Mobilisation at the National Youth Service Corps, says the certificate of exemption purportedly issued to the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, is fake.
He said this during an interview on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Wednesday.
Ani, who was in charge of deployment of corps members, said Brig. Gen. M. I Tsiga was the Director-General of the NYSC in September 2009 but curiously, it was Brig. Gen. Yusuf Bomoi, who purportedly signed the one belonging to the minister.
He said, “The NYSC cannot issue that kind of certificate. Yes, the one reported by Premium Times. We could not have issued that type.
“The certificate that I saw, that one that I saw if it is the one that they are talking about, the one I saw online, it was not issued by NYSC. I don’t know who issued it. It was not issued by NYSC because what I saw there, the signatory to that certificate was our DG (Gen. Bomoi) who left in January and Gen. Tsiga took over from Gen Bomoi.
“Tsiga was a sitting DG even as of that September 2009. So, I don’t know where her certificate came from but NYSC cannot make that kind of mistake. The NYSC that I served, I know can never make that kind of mistake.”
He said it was impossible for the NYSC to have issued a certificate of exemption to someone who graduated below the age of 30.
Ani maintained that the only persons exempted from service were those who had served in the police, military or graduated above the age of 30.
Ani noted that it was a crime for anyone to present a forged NYSC certificate to an employer and added that all employers were mandated to demand NYSC certificates before hiring graduates.
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