. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Wednesday, paraded about 87 suspected fake National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members.
While parading the suspects before journalists in Abuja, on behalf of the Commandant General, Dr. Ade Abolurin, the Corps’ public Relations Officer and a Chief Superintendent, Mr. Emmanuel Okeh, said the suspects were arrested in a hotel in Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, where they were camped awaiting possible deployment to their places of primary assignment.
Abolurin disclosed that NSC-DC had in 2010, made similar arrest of about 54 suspected Corps members in the same Nasarawa State, adding that it was still making a serious effort to burst the syndicate that was behind the nefarious practice.
He said: “In 2010, based on intelligence report, 54 fake Corps members were arrested by members of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps from an illegal camp. Today again, we are bringing before you another 87 fake Corps members that have been also arrested. It will interest you to know that the intelligence networking of the Corps personnel had led to the discovery of this illegal hideout by these fake Corps members.
“The 87 acclaimed Corps members were arrested from Tip Top guest house in Nasarawa Local Government Area in Nasarawa state where they were camped by an acclaimed agent of the NYSC who is still at large and these 87 acclaimed fake Corps members have been undergoing illegal training,” he said.
“Unfortunately for them our intelligence staff, who also discovered, claimed to be one of those to train them but unfortunately they never knew that she was understudying the environment. They were waiting for their passing out like the regular Corps members who were on the camp in Keffi. Unfortunately, while they were celebrating and awaiting their deployment letters, they were clamped down by our personnel and 87 of them were arrested and brought to the headquarters.
“With them, are the call up letters from NYSC, all the NYSC kits that were given to the regular Corps members and you can see, most of them are already in their uniform waiting for deployment to various places of their primary assignment, which unfortunately could not take place because their activities were cut short by our personnel,” he stated.
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