Enugu Tribunal: NYSC DG Lied On Peter Mbah’s Certificate – PDP

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Director-General, Brig. Gen. Yusha’u Dogara Ahmed, said that he informed Dr. Peter Mbah, the candidate for governor of Enugu State, that his discharge certificate was not given by the NYSC. The PDP of Enugu State disputes this assertion.

The party disagreed, claiming that Mbah’s N20 billion action against the agency was necessary as a result of the agency’s conspiracy, dishonesty, and wilful distortion of the facts.

It is often referred to as a case of irony because the DG initially stated that he would not want to comment on the topic because it was in court, only to go on to deny both being aware of the lawsuit and the ensuing court order as well as acting in blatant disobedience of the court.

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These were said by Barr. Nana Ogbodo, Director of Communications and Spokesperson of the Enugu State PDP Campaign Council for the 2023 general elections, during a press conference on Friday. He was responding to the NYSC DG’s earlier-in-the-day appearance on Arise News.

“We should have viewed with surprise the false claim by the NYSC DG, Brigadier-General Yushau’u Dogara Ahmed, on national television this morning. But he has not said anything new, as his statements were in sync with the continued conspiracy, deceit, and wilful misrepresentation of facts by the agency and its Director of Corps Certification, Mr. Ibrahim Muhammad, which necessitated Mbah’s N20 Billion lawsuit against the agency and Mr. Muhammad in the first place.

“The DG lied when he claimed that he told Mbah during a meeting in his office that the NYSC did not issue his certificate. The truth is that he told Mbah that the Director in question neither briefed nor cleared with him before issuing the letter dated February 1, 2023 disclaiming Dr. Mbah’s discharge certificate.

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“He equally expressed surprise when Mbah showed him the letter by the NYSC national headquarters dated 7th May 2003 (reference number NYSC/DHQ/CM/27/20) to the State Director, Lagos, NYSC, re-mobilising him for the remaining part of his service year after a break, by the express and written permission of the agency, to complete Bar Part II (Bar Final).

“Excerpt from the re-mobilisation letter states: ‘I am directed to refer to your letter of 24th April, Reference No. LA/01/1532/T on the above subject matter and to request you to re-instate the corps member to continue his service year from where he stopped, with effect from May 2003’.”

“It is noteworthy that the Directors and staff present at the meeting did not deny that the NYSC authored the letter re-mobilising Mbah, while his place of primary assignment, Udeh & Associates, Lagos, has not denied that it authored the letter reabsorbing him to complete the remaining months of his service year as well as the final clearance letter to enable him to receive his NYSC discharge certificate at the end of his service.

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“The DG actually told Dr. Mbah that he was barely three months in office at the time, but would resolve the matter with dispatch. But it is striking that the NYSC is yet to formally respond to Mbah’s petition since February 2, 2023. Instead, the NYSC, through its Director of Corps Certification, has continued to issue letters of disclaimer to various political interests in Enugu State, in clear contempt of a subsisting court judgment upholding the authenticity of his certificate and in relentless disparagement of his reputation”, the PDP stated.

The group questioned Mbah’s decision to forge a certificate after going through such arduous labor to serve his country, claiming it was illogical to even consider it.

It emphasized that the agency did not have the final say regarding whether Mbah’s NYSC certificate was genuine or not and urged it to take the N20 billion lawsuit to court, where it would have the right to call other agencies who were involved in the production and authentication of the NYSC certificates as witnesses.

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“NYSC discharge certificates are printed by the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company PLC. They have security features such as watermarks and serial numbers denoting the batches. We, therefore, challenge the NYSC to produce any other certificate in the series of Mbah’s certificate that has the same serial number as his.

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