The Director, Press and Public Relations, Nationwide Youth Service Corps, Eddy Megwa, has defined that an investigative reporter who registered twice for the scheme was in a position to take action through the use of alternate particulars.
PUNCN On-line experiences that an investigative reporter, Umar Audu, had revealed how he obtained a level from a Cotonou-based college inside six weeks, earlier than continuing on the necessary one-year service with the NYSC.
In his report, Audu had detailed how the portal had flagged his preliminary try to register together with his earlier particulars, and the way the registration went via after he used a special e mail and telephone quantity.
“NYSC seemingly lacked a digital software to flag makes an attempt to take part within the scheme twice or extra,” he stated.
Talking on the event, Megwa acknowledged that the undercover reporter succeeded as a result of he was “out for a selected objective”, including that the NYSC was working to make sure it didn’t occur once more.
“It’s not that we don’t have checks and balances in place to detect attainable breaches of the system. When the undercover reporter first put in his knowledge, the system rejected him as a result of he had served within the scheme earlier than. He later modified his e mail tackle and his telephone quantity which made the system to simply accept him. And he was initially posted to Osun State.
“He did that as a result of he was out for a selected objective. We’re trying on the scenario and can make sure that it doesn’t occur once more,” he stated.
The NYSC spokesperson additionally defined that the scheme’s built-in ICT system is “evolving” to have the ability to flag and detect a number of registrations, including that the scheme carried out biometric and bodily verification for foreign-trained graduates.
“On this occasion, for the foreign-trained graduates, we don’t have a database that we use in assessing them. What we require is for them to offer us their certificates, after which after all add their particulars in our system.
“After we see the main points they’ve uploaded on our sytem, we are going to now invite them for bodily verification. And that’s the level the place we authenticate whether or not they truly graduated from that claimed establishment or not,” he stated.
Megwa additionally stated the scheme was collaborating with the Nationwide Id Administration Fee to combine the usage of the Nationwide Id Quantity in registration, noting that the scheme would additionally collaborate with the Nigerian Immigration Service to stop inappropriate stamping of passports.
“Three years in the past, we had additionally enlisted that to make sure that your NIN quantity is a part of your registration course of in order that even in case you come 20 instances, the system goes to fish you out.
“We even have the intention of collaborating with the Nigerian Immigration Service to synergise, in order that the method of beating the Nigerian authorities by means of having their passports stamped inappropriately, all these items can be a factor of the previous,” he added.