Court Sentences Graduates For Possessing Fake NYSC Call-Up Letters

Court Sentences Graduates For Possessing Fake NYSC Call-Up Letters

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Dutse,
on Wednesday sentenced three
university graduates to three months
imprisonment each for possessing
fake National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC) call-up letters.

Chief Magistrate Kabir Lamido
sentenced Ale Oluwaseun, 25;
Owolabi Saheed and Makinde Lanre,
both aged 23, who pleaded guilty to
the one count charge, during
arraignment.

Lamido, however, gave each of them
an option of N5, 000 fine and
warned them to desist from illegal
acts.
The prosecutor, Cpl. Garba Abdul, had
earlier told the court that the three
men came to an NYSC Orientation
Camp with the fake letters and
pretended to be intending corps
members, adding that an employee
of the NYSC, Ejibunu Zachary,
reported the case to the Kubwa
police area command on June 26.

He submitted that the offence
contravened Section 366 of the Penal
Code.

The graduates had pleaded for
leniency, saying they were Nigerian
graduates of the University of
Cotonou, Benin Republic, desirous of
serving their fatherland.

They said a man who claimed to be
an official of the NYSC, issued the
letters to them when they were
making enquiries about the scheme.