There are indications that the personnel many corporate organisations in Nigeria flaunt are infiltrated by fake graduates.
The reason is that, this year alone, the National Youths service Corps, which almost all graduates pass through, have arrested over 50 fake graduates.
Observers are thus quick to imagine how many of such fake products cross to the outside world every year.
The indication emerged as the NYSC said it had nabbed the 50 unqualified graduates who attempted to register in the Batch B Stream II exercise with fake certificates at the orientation camps across the country.
In other words, the arrests were made from just a stream.
It said in a statement on Friday that the suspects had been handed over to security operatives
NYSC Director of Press and Public Relations, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, said the verification of the credentials of all corps members was on in the 37 orientation camps across the country, warning that unqualified graduates would not just be fished out but duly prosecuted.
She confirmed on Friday that, indeed, over 50 fake graduates were arrested across the orientation camps and handed over to the police.
According to her, the NYSC Director-General, Brig Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim, has warned that those not qualified would no longer pass through the scheme.
Adeyemi added, “The NYSC is committed to stemming the tide of fraudulent mobilisation of unqualified home-based and foreign-trained Nigerians, especially those purported to have graduated from unaccredited universities in the West African sub-region.
“The verification of credentials of all corps members currently in the 37 orientation camps across the country is still ongoing. As of date, over 50 unqualified graduates from different institutions of higher learning have been decamped from the 2019 Batch B Stream II NYSC Orientation Camps and handed over to law enforcement agencies for prosecution.”
Many employers have complained that a lot of graduates they hired lack basic knowledge and they may now link this to the faking syndrome.
