Lagos, May 19, 2023 – The NYSC discharge certificate being paraded by Enugu State Gov.-elect, Peter Mbah, is not from the NYSC.
This was confirmed by Brig.-Gen. YD Ahmed, the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), on Friday while speaking on an Arise TV’s breakfast programme.
He said the issue of whether Mbah had a valid NYSC certificate or not could not arise again as he had told the People’s Democratic Party’s candidate in the 2023 governorship elections that what he presented, as a certificate, was fake.
“He came to me and I called my director to confirm the certificate and we discovered that the certificate was fake and I told him…I wonder how elites who have gone to school will resort to black market certificates.
“Everyone knows how we issue our certificate in NYSC. We don’t give it in hotel rooms or houses,” he said.
Mbah has, however, filed a case against the NYSC demanding N20 billion for injuries he claimed to have been inflicted on his person due to the controversies surrounding his certificate.
Issues of Mbah’s discharge certificate came to public domain in 2023 when the NYSC, in response to an inquiry by a non-governmental organisation, released a letter stating that the certificate submitted to the INEC was not issued by the NYSC. (GBN)
