Funny: University Sent 27 Groundnut Seller For Youth Service – JAMB

Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, yesterday accused
the management of an unnamed tertiary institution of
sending the names of over 27 groundnut sellers to his
organisation for regularization and mobilisation for the
one-year compulsory National Youth Service Corps
(NYSC).

The revelation came on the heels of the management
of the NYSC accusing the management of tertiary
institutions of frustrating full deployment of ICT in the
mobilisation of corps members.

Ojerinde, who made the remark at the 2015 Batch ‘A’
Pre-mobilisation Workshop in Abkhaz yesterday,
argued that he equally experienced some frustration from higher institutions and even his board members when he introduced the same biometrics in the conduct of JAMB examination.

“It is good that I have this opportunity to speak to the
representatives of the higher institutions.
I want to ask whether this trend of mobilising
unqualified prospective corps members into the NYSC
scheme was this how you were mobilised during your
own days.?

“There is a university where over 5,000 graduates were
mobilised. We have to make a commitment to sanitise
the system by doing the appropriate thing.
There were 27 persons a particular institution
mobilised for NYSC selling ‘pepper nut’ or groundnut
in front of the university.

“A corps member was posted to JAMB to serve, the
director under which he would serve said he could not
write his name.

We wondered how could that be and invited him to my
office, asked him which university he attended, he
simply replied ‘na UNN.
I called the NYSC coordinator in Bwari to come and
take your thing because I know he is not a corps
member,” he said.

Similarly, the Director General of the NYSC, Brig
General J. B. Olawumi, in his opening remarks, accused
some CPIs of not living up to the agreement of
appropriately sensitising their graduating students on
the benefits of the newly introduced ICT registration
platform.

Lolz, wonder shall never end in naija....

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