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Three ‘graduates’ of Enugu State University of Science and Technology
mobilized to participate in the National Youth Service Corps scheme have shown
lack of competence and intelligence level expected of genuine degree holders.
According to documents obtained by ESUT NEWS ONLINE, the three “graduates”
who are serving in Abuja, Lagos and Kogi states respectively, were rejected,
with formal letters sent to the state coordinators by their areas of primary
assignment and forwarded to the NYSC headquarters in Abuja.
The Director General of NYSC, had informed the NUC of the presence of corps
members who displayed a glaring lack of academic ability and intelligence
level expected of genuine Nigerian graduates, which were consistently exhibited
by the three students from the Enugu State University of Science and
Technology.
Attaching copies of letters from NYSC secretariats in Abuja, Lagos and Kogi,
as contained in the reports, the corps members exhibited signs of
incompetence and low intelligence level which range from inability to complete
registration formalities correctly to not being able to teach pupils at nursery
school level.
These inadequacies led to their rejections by their employers in their various
states of deployment.
The case, according to an insider account, has baffled the National
Universities Commission (NUC) and prompted the setting up of a committee to
verify the integrity of the degrees, and find out if there was collaboration by the university.
Federal education authorities are suspecting a wide-ranging scam that might have
been going on for years.
To unravel how the three corps members were mobilised, the NUC has already set
up a panel, comprising officials of NYSC, Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board (JAMB) and the State Security Service (SSS).
The mandate of the panel, according to a statement signed by NUC Director of Quality Assurance,
Professor C.F. Mafiana, is to fully investigate the report with a view to identifying the culprits, including others similarly mobilised and their collaborators, and ensuring sanctions accordingly.
The team would be chaired by a visiting professor in the NUC.
Out of the three corps members, Jane could hardly write the Roman figures from
one to 10 in words, just as she could not write three states and their capitals.
She could not provide the names of two major rivers in Nigeria, just as she
failed to name three countries that share border with Nigeria.
Obioma, according to the documents, was rejected by Kings College, Lagos, after
it was discovered that she was grossly incompetent to perform her duties.
A further test on her by the Lagos State NYSC secretariat revealed that though a
graduate of Electrical/Electronics, she never passed any of the science
subjects at the secondary school level.
The third fellow, John, who was posted to Abuja, was rejected by a
nursery/primary school known as FEMA Schools because of his inability to read
and write.
Having been rejected by two employers, he had to be reposted by Abuja NYSC to a
bakery, pending the final determination of his case by the NYSC national
headquarters.
When queried on his incompetence, John proved his incompetence when he responded
in writing: “I awarded a degree in Enugu State University of Science and Technology I have a probeam in my university am manegn my siefe to funsh my school.”
A source disclosed on Friday that members of the panel would soon commence
probing the circumstances under which the ‘graduates’ were released by the university to participate in the NYSC scheme.
