By Palma Ileye
Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has questioned the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, denial of the certificate of Governor-elect of Enugu State, Dr. Peter Mbah, saying that such claims were suspicious.
Recalled that NYSC certificate which Mbah presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, ahead of the 2023 general elections has become a subject of public discussion after the NYSC repeatedly denied the certificate.
Addressing newsmen yesterday in Abuja, National Coordinator, HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, demanded that the Federal Government, especially the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation, constitute a panel and probe the decision of the NYSC.
Onwubiko said, “We wonder why Mbah would go through all the rigorous process to serve his fatherland only to end up forging a certificate.
“NYSC discharge certificates are printed by the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company PLC.”
He noted that they have security features such as watermarks and serial numbers denoting the batches adding that, “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.
“The suspicious role of the management of NYSC in the instigated saga about the so-called unknown NYSC certificate presented by Governor elect of Enugu State is therefore suspicious.
“The maximum political de-marketing of the Governor-elect is satanic and condemnable. The whole thing should be subjected to forensic finger printing analysis.
“Information at our disposal showed that there was something sinister about all these circumstances surrounding the blackmailing of governor elect of Enugu by NYSC.
“We condemn the media trial against Peter Mbah and demand a Presidential probe panel made up of independent persons including for justices of the Supreme Court who must have retired 12 years ago as members to probe the NYSC certificate issuance that is now marred in self inflicted quagmire.”
