The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has explained how Audu Umar, an undercover reporter for an online daily, managed to get past its security measures and be called up for the one-year national service requirement despite having already served in 2019.
During the investigation, Umar explained how he completed a four-year degree in less than two months and then, despite his previous service, received a call to participate in the NYSC program.
However, the NYSC spokesman, Eddy Megwa, said that the reporter had circumvented the system by using multiple phone lines during an appearance on Channels Television’s “Sunrise Daily” on Thursday, a few days after the report went viral.
“It is not that we don’t have checks and balances in place to detect possible breaches of the system. When the undercover reporter first put in his data, the system rejected him because he had served in the scheme before.
“He later changed his email address and his phone number which made the system to accept him. And he was initially posted to Osun State.
“He did that because he was out for a particular purpose. We are looking at the situation and ensure that it does not happen again. We don’t have a database of graduates who served in the scheme. We only rely on the lists sent to us by the Senates of the various universities stating the number of graduates to expect from them,” he stated.
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