Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Major General Shuaibu Ibrahim has warned that the Scheme will henceforth prosecute Nigerian graduates who refuse to present themselves for mobilisation for National Service after completion of their studies.
This was even as the scheme denied claims that a corps member was shot dead by Policemen in Ibadan while returning with his car from the weekly Community Development Service within the metropolis.
The DG spoke at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the NYSC and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) for the prosecution of its criminal cases. According to him, section 13 Sub Section 1(a) and (b) empowers the Service Corps to prosecute offenders, who refused to present themselves for national service.
General Ibrahim who was represented by the Director, Legal Services of the Scheme, Barrister Tijjani Ahmed Ibrahim, disclosed that NYSC has been having challenges in prosecuting some of its cases and expressed confidence that the partnership with the NSCDC would bring this to an end.
He assured that the Scheme would live up to its responsibilities as stipulated in the MOU.
The NYSC helmsman commended the NSCDC for its steadfast support to the Scheme recalling that it was the Corps that spearheaded the discovery and dismantling of a fake NYSC Camp as well as the successful prosecution of the culprits.
