According to Premium Times,
the Minister did not participate in the mandatory one-year national youth
service scheme. Instead, she allegedly forged an exemption certificate many
years after graduation.
The year-long service, organised by the
National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), is compulsory for all Nigerians who
graduate from universities or equivalent institutions at less than 30 years of
age.
In addition to being a requirement for
government and private sector jobs in Nigeria, the enabling law prescribes
punishment for anyone who absconds from the scheme or forges its certificates.
According to Premium Times, Mrs.
Adeosun’s official credentials show that the minister parades a purported NYSC
exemption certificate, which was issued in September 2009, granting her
exemption from the mandatory service on account of age.
BACKGROUND
Mrs. Adeosun graduated from the
Polytechnic of East London in 1989, at the age of 22. According to her
curriculum vitae, Mrs Adeosun was born in March 1967.
The institution changed name to
University of East London in 1992. Mrs Adeosun has her certificate issued in
the new name. Having graduated at 22, it is obligatory for Mrs Adeosun to
participate in the one-year national service, for her to qualify for any job in
Nigeria.
However, at the time of her graduation,
the young Folakemi Oguntomoju, as she then was, did not return to Nigeria to
serve her fatherland. Upon graduation in 1989, the Applied Economics graduate
pursued fast-paced career in the British public and private sectors.
She first landed a job at British
Telecoms but left after a year to join Goodman Jones, an accounting, and
investment firm, as audit officer. She served there till 1993. In 1994, Mrs.
Adeosun joined London Underground Company as Internal Audit Manager, before
switching to Prism Consulting, a finance firm, where she worked between 1996
until 2000.
In 2000, Mrs. Adeosun was hired by
PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she worked for two years. When she eventually
returned to Nigeria in 2002, Mrs. Adeosun still did not deem it necessary to
participate in the NYSC scheme. She simply accepted a job offer at a private
firm, Chapel Hill Denham.
However, ostensibly concerned that she
might run into trouble for skipping the mandatory scheme, Mrs. Adeosun,
sometime in 2009, procured a fake exemption certificate.
It was further gathered by Premium
Times that Mrs. Adeosun’s ‘certificate’ is dated September 9, 2009, and was
purportedly signed by Yusuf Bomoi, a former director-general of the corps.
Bomoi stepped down from the NYSC in
January 2009, and could not have signed any certificate for the corps eight
months after. The retired brigadier general passed on in September 2017.
An official of the NYSC also described
the certificate as an ‘Oluwole Certificate’ adding that they “did not issue it
and we could not have issued it”. Oluwole is a location in Nigeria’s commercial
capital, Lagos, where fraudsters possess an amazing dexterity in the act of
forging all kinds of documents.
Several current and former officials of
the scheme told this paper that the NYSC would never issue an exemption
certificate to anyone who graduated before age 30 and did not fall into the
categories of persons exempted by the corps’ enabling Act.
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