Fake NYSC corps members detected with E- Registration

By Samuel

Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi , the Director
General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) ,
has revealed that fake intending corps members were
prevented from enrolling through the online
registration system Thisday reports .
Olawuni made this known in Abuja at a stakeholders’
meeting on the NYSC e- registration.
The Director General who insisted that due process
was followed in the deployment of Information
Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure for
the scheme , said it was important for the NYSC to
embrace the modern ICT system in the technology-
driven world.
He explained that the system would wipe out fraud,
avoidable deaths in the encountered in the
mobilization processes.
“It becomes antithetical for the NYSC to have
retained the antiquated and traditional manual
mobilization processes with the attendant
shortcomings and associated problems , rather than
embracing a global phenomenon that eliminates
errors and saves time , ” he said .
He added that, “The prospective corps members have
equally faced the treachery of fraudsters who extort
money from them in the name of NYSC without
remorse, frustration in collection of call- up letters,
cloning of lost call- up letters for the purpose of fake
camps and stealing of call- up letters from schools .”
He however said the pilot e- mobilisation exercise
was a huge success , as it forms a standard shift from
the old system .
“During the last Batch ‘C’ Mobilisation and
Orientation exercise, we tested the project and it was
a huge departure from the past as prospective corps
members went online to register , while Corps
Producing Institutions simply sent the Senate
approved results which were uploaded . Those who
qualified for mobilisation and chose the option of
accessing the infrastructure , were promptly notified
by e- mail and immediately received Call - up numbers
online instead of travelling to their schools, ” he
stated.
Meanwhile, Mrs . Martilda Nnodim, the Chairperson of
the Association of Registrars of Nigerian Universities
(ARNU ), who represented the Corps members
producing institutions at the forum praised the
initiative , noting that there was need for NYSC to go
digital in their mobilization processes.
Nnodim said that the notion was a wake - up call,
which has finally pushed the universities to
successfully pursue the digitalization of their
processes.