A retired Director of Mobilisation at the National Youth Service
Corps (NYSC), Anthony Ani, has given reasons the purported ‘Certificate
of Exemption’ owned by Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, is
not genuine and “wouldn’t have emanated from the NYSC”.
Adeosun was alleged to have skipped the mandatory NYSC year and went ahead to procure a certificate to cover her tracks.
She is yet to respond to the allegations since they became public last weekend.
Ani, who appeared on Channels Television’s breakfast show, Sunrise
Daily, said the certificate had footprints of a fake NYSC certificate.
He insisted that there was no way NYSC would issue Certificate of Exemption to anyone who graduated before 30 years.
“You don’t apply for either NYSC certificate or NYSC certificate of
national service or certificate of exemption, you present yourself for
mobilisation. The system will determine whether you are to be exempted
or you are not to be exempted,” Ani said.
Answering another question, he insisted that “[by] the NYSC
procedure, you don’t apply for exemption and expect a certificate. You
make yourself available [for mobilisation], when you are mobilised,
those who are to be exempted are exempted and those who are to be
deployed are deployed.”