87 fake NYSC members arrested

Eighty-seven fake youth corps members were yesterday paraded in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital.
They were arrested by the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) at an illegal orientation camp in Lafia following intelligence surveillance.The part-time graduates, some of whom were in the khaki uniform of the National Youth Service Corps, were paraded at the NSCDC Headquarters, Abuja.

Spokesman of the NSCDC Emmanuel Okeh said a manhunt has been launched for some fake corps members who escaped.

He said the NSCDC has also begun investigation to unmask the operators of the illegal NYSC camp.

The Deputy Commandant of the NSCDC in Nasarawa, Walter Akubiro, who led the raid, said the arrests were made possible by an operative who applied to the coordinator of the camp as a military instructor.

He said the suspects, who paid between N80,000 to N150, 000 to the fake NYSC operators, had earlier been lodged at the Tip Top Hotel, Nyanya, Nasarawa State before they were moved to a camp inside a bush.

Akubiro said: “The coordinators convinced their victims that they would take them to the NYSC orientation camp in Kubwa, Abuja and collected money from them.”

Chinedu Ebelechukwu, the camp coordinator, said he was running the camp for one Mr. John, who allegedly registered 96 ‘corps members’.

Ebelechukwu, who claimed to be a Bio-Chemistry graduate of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, said he was not paid any money by the said John

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