The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has announced that it has blocked the accounts of 1,000 corps members across the country for unethical practices. This was disclosed in Abuja by the Director-General of NYSC, Brig. Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim at the Public Service Institute of Nigeria after declaring open the 2020 inspectors development program, themed: “Optimising the ideals of the scheme through effective utilization of the NYSC inspector.”
It was gathered that the corps members’ accounts were blocked because they attempted to manipulate their postings and redeployment.
The affected corps members’ are part of the 2021 Batch A, Streams 1 and 2.
Ibrahim said, “There are 1,000 corps members nationwide we believe were involved in unethical practices. So, we canceled their deployment and we are still investigating it, so anybody involved will be disciplined accordingly.
“So, recently we had to block 1,000 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.”
Ibrahim further said, “I want to appeal to Nigerians that they should please not fall prey to these fraudsters; our deployment is free. Where there are challenges, NYSC has a way of addressing them.
“It is very important for us to train our staff and retrain them so that they will be in tune with our best practices and that is the essence of this training. The challenges we have is that some people are attempting to compromise our staff to involve in unethical practices.”
